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Post subject: Remove "X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.11" from HTTP headers of your web server | Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:49 am

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Remove "X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.11" from HTTP headers of your web server

HTTP 1.1 protocol, as most of the other protocol, uses headers for the communication between client (usually browser) and server.

An example of the header looks like:

Code:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:03:41 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.11 with Suhosin-Patch mod_ssl/2.2.15 OpenSSL/0.9.8k
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.11
Set-Cookie: phpbb3_qxggi_u=1; expires=Thu, 24-Mar-2011 04:03:41 GMT; path=/; domain=forum.ivorde.ro; HttpOnly
Set-Cookie: phpbb3_qxggi_k=; expires=Thu, 24-Mar-2011 04:03:41 GMT; path=/; domain=forum.ivorde.ro; HttpOnly
Set-Cookie: phpbb3_qxggi_sid=514ad39b91e1e29bcb1a7553dcb8f4a7; expires=Thu, 24-Mar-2011 04:03:41 GMT; path=/; domain=forum.ivorde.ro; HttpOnly
Cache-Control: private, no-cache="set-cookie"
Expires: 0
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Encoding: gzip
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

To remove the X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.11 from this header, open your php.ini file and change the line:

Code:

expose_php = On

to

Code:

expose_php = Off

Of course, restart of apache is needed for this to take effect.

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