note 80217 deleted from function.include by nlopess

Note Submitter: WereCougar ---- 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