Re: Safe mode w/ IIS4 + PHP

I have an open bug submission for this subject; and even tried to append to the documentation about the subject that you just mentioned (much of Safe Mode not working under Win32 because of ownership issues.) Rasmus Lerdorf suggested that I submit the bug report, and as far as I know it is still "Open." Eric Gavin "Erick Baum" <erick@teal.net> wrote in message news:20010916154249.90033.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > I am having a similar problem with Windows2000, IIS5, and the latest stable > PHP. I don't believe Safe Mode works in a Windows environment anyways, > because it does not understand Windows permissions as far as ownership. > However, I was told to use the open_basedir option which in php.ini. You > set it to the root of where you want files to be able to be opened from. > For example open_basedir = c:\inetpub\wwwroot\ which would only allow them > to open files located somewhere in that directory or a sub-directory under > it. Or you're supposed to be able to do something like open_basedir = . > which is supposed to tell it that a PHP script can only open files in the > directory and sub-directories where the script resides. This would be the