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Re: is_dir true from cli, false from Apache [message #178227 is a reply to message #178223] Wed, 23 May 2012 20:39 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Thomas 'PointedEars'  is currently offline  Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Robert Heller wrote:

>> 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:
>>>> > I'm having trouble on CentOS 6 with PHP5. This is my test code:
>>>> >
>>>> > $dir = is_dir("/var/www/document_repository");
>>>> >
>>>> > Ultimately, I'm trying to get OpenDocMan working. That this test code
>>>> > fails shows why I can't get OpenDocMan working. I've tried everything
>>>> > I can think of. I've added a trailing /. I've put the directory in
>>>> > and out of the OpenDocMan directory, which has a directory definition
>>>> > in the Apache config. The user apache owns and has full access to the
>>>> > directory. I tested to make sure PHP was being run by apache with
>>>> > passthru("whoami");

What was not tried is to read and interpret the error message that this call
prints (either in the browser or in the log file). It should be something
along the lines "open_basedir restriction in effect".

> […]
> 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.

It is a PHP configuration setting.

<http://php.net/open_basedir>

> 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.

Wrong. Apache configuration files only come into play when HTTP is used
from PHP, such as with fopen_url wrappers, like require('http://localhost/')
– for whatever reason), but that is not the case here either.

> By default apache disallows access to the root file system (from
> httpd.conf):

Which PHP, as it is only executed in this case when Apache runs it, could
not care less about, except when it contains `php_*' directives or includes
files containing them:

<http://php.net/php_value>


PointedEars
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