Topic: using symbolic link to deal with virus issue

[edwardsmarkf]

hello -

i would like to temporarily "protect" my index.php file from being changed by malware.

so, i am thinking the best way to do this would be to do the following:

1) move index.php file from the apache www directory to root directory
2) change the ownership to root
3) chmod to 444
4) create a symbolic link to the index.php file in the apache www directory.

unfortunately, i get back an error:
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

is there a way i can protect my index.php file using a method similar to what i just described?

[James Blond]

For that you can use bindfs. The "better-user" can edit the files, while apache can't.

/etc/fstab