Re: PHP Won't Access Files Outside Web Root (Leopard/MacOS X 10.5)

On 11/1/07 9:46 AM, "Robert Cummings" <robert@interjinn.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 09:06 -0400, Rahul Sitaram Johari wrote: >> Ave, >> >> Somehow my PHP won't access, won't even acknowledge the existence of a file >> that is outside the /Library/WebServer/Documents folder. This was never a a >> problem before in any Mac version - it just started with Leopard. >> >> I don't know what has changed where, in httpd.conf or php.ini or somewhere >> else, but something changed that's crippling access to files outside of the >> webserver. >> >> This Works in Mac OS X 10.3.9 (i.e., prints File Exists) but the same exact >> script does not work in Mac OS X 10.5, and yes, the file is available in >> Leopard in the mentioned location - path is exact same - permissions are all >> set: >> >> $filename = "/Users/username/Documents/Transfers/test.txt"; >> if (file_exists($filename)) { >> echo "The file $filename exists<br><br>"; >> } else { >> echo "The file $filename does not exist<br><br>"; >> } >> >> I¹ve already checked safe_mode which is Off and open_basedir which is not >> set ­ same settings as php.ini from before. >> Any ideas what might be causing this? > > Have you checked phpinfo() to check that the php.ini being loaded is the > one you think is being loaded? Also, are you get any warnings or > notices? Yes. Checked phpinfo() ... Correct php.ini loaded. On fopen(), I get the following warning: Warning: fopen(/Library/WebServer/Documents/Misc/osm/ox.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /Library/WebServer/Documents/Misc/test.php on line 5 I was using if/else before with file_exists() or is_readable() and it didn't give me any warnings or notices. Now I tried with fopen() and it does indeed give me a warning. One thing I must point out is that "osm" is a Share Point which has a windows network share mounted on it (via SMB). I'm not sure where the problems are in permissions, because while mounting, I'm allowing full read/write permissions to share: Mount_smbfs -f 777 -d 777 //user:pwd@ip/share sharePoint ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rahul Sitaram Johari CEO, Twenty Four Seventy Nine Inc. W: http://www.rahulsjohari.com E: sleepwalker@rahulsjohari.com ³I morti non sono piu soli ... The dead are no longer lonely²