Re: php4: less config variables

Estelle Martin writes: > Hi all, > I am very frustrated: I have been running php3 for 4 months and I was > used to some configuration options that were secure for several > users to put their php pages on their site. In particular, for > each virtual host, I put php3_open_basedir in a directory tag in > httpd.conf of Apache, so that the user cannot change directory out of > his own part of the server. Yesterday I installed PHP4, and here is > what I read: > " > With PHP 3.0, there are Apache directives that correspond to each > configuration setting in the php3.ini name, except the name is prefixed > by "php3_". > > With PHP 4.0, there are just a few Apache directives that allow you to > change the PHP configuration settings. > " > And in these "few Apache directives", open_basedir is not ... > This means that I have to put open_basedir in the php.ini file and I > cannot put a different value for each directory ? > Did somebody have the same desillusion and maybe an alternate solution ? > Thank you, > Estelle No...:) It means that there is no longer one directive *per option*. Each directive, however, takes an option and its value as arguments. For instance, what would have been 'php3_include_path /some/path' in PHP 3 becomes, in PHP 4, 'php_admin_value include_path /some/path'. You can still do your thing; just the syntax has changed. Hope this helps, Torben -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Netmill iTech| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.netmill.fi| |Ph: 1 250 383-9735 torben@netmill.fi| +----------------------------------------------------------------+