| Re: is_dir true from cli, false from Apache [message #178228 is a reply to message #178223] |
Wed, 23 May 2012 20:44   |
Robert Grimm
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On 2012-05-23 19:17:58 +0000, Robert Heller said:
> At Wed, 23 May 2012 14:04:37 -0400 Jerry Stuckle
> <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net> wrote:
>
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>> On 5/23/2012 1:24 PM, Robert Grimm wrote:
>>> On 2012-05-23 17:10:31 +0000, Jerry Stuckle said:
>>>
>>>> On 5/23/2012 12:45 PM, Robert Grimm wrote:
>>>> > ...
> There is also the possiblity that the apache (most likely) and/or php
> configuration might prevent a php web application from accessing disk
> space outside of under DOCUMENT_ROOT. The base default DocumentRoot
> for a CentOS install of apache (httpd rpm) is /var/www/html and
> /var/www/document_repository is outside of that directory... I am not
> sure if this is an apache or php configuration. I *suspect* that the
> default is to disallow a php program running under apache's PHP_MOD
> from accessing files, unless apache is allowing it. By default apache
> disallows access to the root file system (from httpd.conf):
>
> #
> # Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect
> # to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
> # directory (and its subdirectories).
> #
> # First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
> # features.
> #
> <Directory />
> Options FollowSymLinks
> AllowOverride None
> </Directory>
>
> (This directive is followed by others granting various sorts of access
> to selected directories.)
>
> This is a sensible securirty setting. You might have to add the
> necessary 'magic' to httpd.conf or add a config file to
> /etc/httpd/conf.d to allow access to /var/www/document_repository, with
> a suitable <Directory /var/www/document_repository>...</Directory>
> container.
Since PHP doesn't care about what directories Apache knows about, this
couldn't be the case, though just for fun, I have tried accounting for
that. The directory I'm trying to access has been inside the site
directory.
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