There is no need to run your db on vmware... If they're on the same machine the connection always goes through the local loopback device thus never touching the actual network.
This is true both when the DB host is specified as 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1' and if the machine's actual host name or outside network address is used (in which case the OS will/should recognise that it's actually a local connection and uses the loopback)
Conectarea la baza de date
Puteți să vă conectați la baza de date folosind encripția SSL pentru a spori siguranța datelor, sau puteți folosi ssh pentru a cripta datele dintre clienții din rețea și serverul de baze de date. Dacă este folosită una dintre aceste metode, atunci interceptarea traficului și accesul la informațiile sensibile despre bazele de date ar fi foarte dificilă pentru un atacator.
M Zijlstra ¶
5 years ago
jakub dot lasinski at interia dot pl ¶
5 years ago
Even if webserver and DBMS are on the same phisical machine one can separate networks by setting database in virtual server inside the main system (using for example VMware solutions).
Anonymous ¶
7 years ago
Obviously, this does not apply if PHP and the DBMS are running on the same machine.
aastaneh at cmax2 dot com ¶
6 years ago
Another solution to protect your database is to have a seperate backend network exclusively used for database traffic. Your webserver(s) would have two interface cards: one facing the world, one facing the internal database network. This way- there's no chance of intercepting database traffic from the outside.
