#17930 [Opn->Fbk]: problem when apache serving a php page that reside on the network

ID: 17930 Updated by: kalowsky@php.net Reported By: HummerX123@hotmail.com -Status: Open +Status: Feedback Bug Type: Apache related Operating System: Win2k PHP Version: 4.2.1 New Comment: have you tried: mapping to the drive? creating a shortcut to it in under you includes_path? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-15 01:14:46] bcf@jwfc.jfcom.mil forgot to add configuration info: Windows 2000 Server SP2 with most security hot fixes. Apache 1.3.26 PHP 4.2.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-15 01:13:11] bcf@jwfc.jfcom.mil I can duplicate HummerX123's problem. We are having the exact same problem. I strongly believe it is a PHP problem and not Apache. Apache can read static html files off a network share (via UNC path, i.e. \\hostname\share\path_to_files) without problem. Apache can also execute cgi's (like .exe files) over the unc path w/o problems. But when the PHP engine tries to access a php file over a UNC path it files. Altering the includes_path variable in the php.ini to include the UNC path (using either //hostname//... or \\hostname\\... conventions) fails the solve the problem. If I move the files back to the local drive there work fine. The comment about not using network shares as your document root is invalid. Many, many, sites do this so that data does not have to be copied between all the servers. Under windows NT and higher the preferred method of accessing a remote network share is via its UNC path NOT mapping the drive letter. In fact, automatically mapping drive letters under NT/Win2K pain in the butt and requires creating a special service just to map the drive. Its ashame Windows doesn't have NFS and the automounter. Perhaps you could remedy this problem using Microsoft's DFS and/or junction points (symlinks) but that shouldn't be necessary. In my opinion, its a problem with the internal PHP function that reads in the source code prior to parsing. It doesn't seem to understand UNC paths. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-07-03 15:18:33] cpelkey@charter.net I am having a similar problem, but my webdocs are not being read off the network. I just Installed apache 1.3.26 and php 4.2.1 and am getting the same error log entry reported in this bug report. I tried everything I could think of so far, to no avail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-24 17:00:14] HummerX123@hotmail.com Please note that it work fine when I map the network share to a drive. When I use pure UNC path then apache still serving static page just fine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-23 10:32:30] HummerX123@hotmail.com Something else that I might add is that the page that it failed to open is the page that i am serving for example when I am hitting http://localhost/test.php then the following error will be throw: Warning: Failed opening '//machinename/webroot/test.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in Unknown on line 0 where webroot is a network share folder. So basically the error said it fail to open itself..... However if test is a static html page then it work fine so I am sure that I don't have a problem with the configuration of Apache or windows. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/17930 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17930&edit=1