note 80217 added to function.include

I was having tremendous problems with "Permission Denied" errors, when trying to include() a file from within a symbolically-linked directory, like so: <?php // this tosses 'Permission Denied' errors include('/www/site/includes/file.php'); // this works fine include('/var/www/site/includes/file.php'); ?> Note: "/www" is a symlink to "/var/www" This also happens on require(), include_once(), and require_once(). I searched in vain for hours trying to figure out if it was a PHP problem, an OS problem, or an Apache problem. I chmod-ed everything properly, chown-ed everything properly, and still nothing would allow me to include() a file. It turns out that my fresh install of CentOS 4.4 had additional security measures in place (SELinux). It's enabled by default, and when I turned this off, everything worked perfectly. I would imagine this also happens on Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well. How to disable SELinux: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_centos_4.4_p3 ---- Server IP: 208.69.120.35 Probable Submitter: 66.152.230.58 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/80217 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80217/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80217/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80217/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80217/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80217/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80217/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80217 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/80217 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php