{"id":2048,"date":"2015-08-21T13:52:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T13:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.com\/hosting-faqs\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2018-05-22T09:43:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T09:43:03","slug":"secure-opencart-website-from-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/secure-opencart-website-from-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Secure OpenCart Website From Hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenCart is an open-source, PHP based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/apps\/ecommerce-hosting\">eCommerce solution<\/a> for online merchants. Being open source it has some negative traits. One of the negative aspect is that anyone can access the core code to understand it&#8217;s working.<\/p>\n<p>To improve the security of your store from unauthorized parties, we would suggest you to perform the following security steps immediately after completing the Opencart installation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Once you complete the installation process of OpenCart, you should remove the \/install\/ directory using FTP program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Change the file permissions for the config.php file in both the root directory and the \/admin\/ directories to 444.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/setting-up-ssl-on-opencart-store\/\">Setting up SSL on OpenCart Store<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To know more about OpenCart, visit <a title=\"MilesWeb OpenCart Hosting\" href=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/apps\/opencart-hosting\">MilesWeb OpenCart Hosting page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenCart is an open-source, PHP based eCommerce solution for online merchants. 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