Re: php4: less config variables

> 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, You are misreading it. This is what it says: With PHP 4.0, there are just a few Apache directives that allow you to change the PHP configuration settings. php_value name value This sets the value of the specified variable. What it means is that instead of having a separate Apache directive for each and every setting, there are now only a couple of general purpose Apache directive that lets you set any PHP configuration variable. In your case you would want something like: php_admin_value open_basedir blah -Rasmus