Bug #11940: ill side effect of open_basedir

From: a.genkin@utoronto.ca Operating system: Solaris 8/sparc PHP version: 4.0.6 PHP Bug Type: PHP options/info functions Bug description: ill side effect of open_basedir safe_mode = On doc_root = /homes/u0/apache open_basedir = "/var/www/htdocs/workathome:/var/www/secure:/var/www/tmp" (/var/www is a symlink for /homes/u0/apache) In such a setting I should be able to execute PHP scripts from any directory under /homes/u0/apache, but not access any files unless they are under one of the directories in open_basedir. However, I cannot place any scripts in, say, /homes/u0/apache/cdf/deadlines/. A minimal file foo.php, saved there, containing only: <?php echo "<html><body>Hello</body></html>"; ?> Results in the script not executed, with the following error messages: [Fri Jul 6 17:24:53 2001] [error] PHP Warning: open_basedir restriction in effect. File is in wrong directory in Unknown on line 0 [Fri Jul 6 17:24:53 2001] [error] PHP Warning: Failed opening '/homes/u0/apache/htdocs/cdf/deadlines/foo.php' for inclusion (include_path='') in Unknown on line 0 open_basedir's documentation says that it should only restrict directories from where a file can be opened by a PHP script. http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.php Many thanks, -- Arcady Genkin -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=11940&edit=1