To secure my Joomla account.

[jaishree]

I want to secure my joomla account and read on a blog that we can put 'configuration.php' file outside WWW folder.
Can we do that ? If yes then how it will secure my account.
Need help.

Any other steps to harden my joomla account security are appreciated.

[ribo]

Please read https://docs.joomla.org/Security . Always update your joomla, template, third party extensions, have correct permissions for folders and files, and good hosting company.

[darb]

You can use 3:pds extension like JHackGuard, Akeeba Admin Tool Pro, DMC Firewall, RS Firewall etc etc and also secure your site by configure a better htaccess file in Joomla root https://docs.joomla.org/Htaccess_examples_(security) this is included in Akeeba Admin Tool Pro and also search for more htaccess improvements to add there..

[leolam]

I want to secure my joomla account and read on a blog that we can put 'configuration.php' file outside WWW folder.
Can we do that ? If yes then how it will secure my account.

No it does not secures your account at all and it will create huge problems for you (no more automated updates among others, redoing all what needs to be done for this with each update and a lot more. It does not add at all to security as well. Search the forums since we have endless discussions had about it. Best advise is to refrain from doing so

Leo

[darb]

What you can do with your configuration file to make it "more secure" is to change the permissions from 644 to 444 for that configuration file..