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

On 11/1/07 12:17 PM, "Daniel Brown" <parasane@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/1/07, Rahul Sitaram Johari <sleepwalker@rahulsjohari.com> wrote: >> Well FollowSymLinks was present in my httpd.conf, and it's definitely not >> the problem. I think the problem is the fact that on in Panther, I was able >> to specify Apache Web Server to be the User/Group for the share being >> mounted with -u 70 -g 70 during mount_smbfs. >> >> In Leopard I'm not able to do that because they eliminated the -u -g >> arguments for mount_smbfs - in fact they even eliminated NetInfo Manager so >> I don't even know Apache's UID & GID. >> >> So after mounting the share on the share point, this is what happens: >> http://www.troyjobs.com/media/smb.gif (It's a >> screenshot of difference >> between Panther & Leopard on the same folder showing different User/Group). >> >> As you can see files within the mounted share had "www" (Apache) as the user >> & group and PHP didn't have any problems accessing the files. But in >> Leopard, "www" (Apache) is not the user/group. >> >> I don't know what you have to do in Leopard to mount a share giving it a >> User/Group of your choice. >> >> > > Rahul, > > The image you showed indicates that there is no user account > associated with UID 501 on Leopard. That particular UID is, on most > *nix-based systems, the second-lowest-available default UID for a > user-created account (starting at 500, unless you specify otherwise). > > Try creating an account on Leopard (you may have to do two, unless > you want to edit /etc/passwd) and then ls -l the Leopard view > of the > share again. You'll see 501 disappear and be replaced by the name > associated with UID 501. Then just see what the GID associated with > the group 'admin' is and update that, if need be. > > The fix for this could be as simple as su -'ing to > root and > chown'ing the directory to the UID/GID of the web server, but I don't > know how much conflict that will cause for the rest of your system, so > that's entirely up to you. Daniel, You're on the right track. I do realize the UID 501 and how to change that, I think my biggest two problems right now are: A) I don't know what's the UID/GID of Apache in Leopard. It used to be 70 in Panther and I don't know if it's changed or not. They eliminated NetInfo Manager so I don't even know how to find out. B) Even if I did find out, I don't know how to apply Apache's UID/GID to mounted share while mounting. I could possibly go in and manually give the folder the UID/GID using terminal. Is there a Terminal way of figuring out the UID/GID of something like admin, apache etcetera? PS: I know it's going OT!