Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Request for Discussion: use_sub_dirs' default value

On Friday 30 January 2004 09:38, messju mohr wrote: > Hello, > > I often stumble over people who stumble over problems when it comes to > handling the templates_c-folder: Files can not be created (because of > safe_mode-restrictions) or files cannot be deleted (because there is > only ftp-access as a different user than the webserver is). I have often problems like this on shared servers which are misconfigured. It works only when every thing is on 0777 which should be not the case. Most webservers run under the user nobody and group nobody. Some ftp servers change the file rights while upload to user "userxxxx" group "nobody". The webserver should run php scripts under this rights. In this case there is no poblem to delete all files created by php scripts. > > These problems are easy to solve for experienced users, but hard for > beginners. I think the speed benefit of use_sub_dirs=true > vs. use_sub_dirs=false is only measurable when a huge number of > templates is used (maybe caused by a database-resource) or when > caching with a reasonable number of cache_ids is done. IMHO, these two > are advanced uses of smarty and people who do things like that can be > expected to turn use_sub_dirs on explicitely. > > Shouldn't Smarty come with $use_sub_dirs=false as default? I never understand why this feature is disabled on some servers? Where is the security problem to create subfolders from withhin php? > > greetings > messju