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</li>
+ <li><p>Generate the archive in a non-web accessible location, and
+ then mirror files into a web-accesible locations, excluding the
+ database file. The drawback to this approach is it adds extra
+ administrative and processing overhead.
+ </p>
+
<li><p>Practically, all web servers provide the ability deny access
to files. Refer to your web server's documentation for the specifies.
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<p>This will redirect browsers to the parent directory, which is
the actual archive associated with database file.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><p>The <a href="../resources/dbfile.html">DBFILE</a> resource can
+ be used to rename the database file to some arbitrary, not easily
+ guessed, name of your choosing. However, this does not prevent brute
+ force attempts to access the file.
</p>
</li>
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