I have 2 root directories for a site, httpdocs and httpsdocs. I am sure its obvious what the 2 are for. But I want to keep things consistent through-out the site like global navigation. Right now I have two separate files for this (one in each side) and I would like to only have one. This is hard to maintain because each time I change one I have to change the other (if I remember to), it breaks the DRY rule. But if I try to include a file from one side to the other using a relative path it tells me the file path is not allowed because it goes outside the document root. If I try to include it with an absolute URL I get another error saying file access is disabled in the server configuration. (I am on a hosting account so the most I can change as far as server config is limited to .htaccess). So can anyone think of a work-around for this?
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Why not put your global include file in yet another directory (lets call it library) and then have each http root have an include file that includes ../library/lib.php, then sets specific paramaters. This gives you the added benifit of your library php files not being in the document root path as well.
And actually. Updating because I just read the entry about "relative path" issues.
Could you set the "include path" php value to include that directory?
Something like this:
ini_set('include_path', realpath(dirname(__FILE__)."/../library").":".ini_get('include_path'));
require_once('lib.php');
Did a little more research - seems that changing open_basedir is not possible unless you are able to edit the httpd.conf or php.ini values. PHP Manual: open_basedir
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JD Isaacks
If they are not in the document root I cannot access them, I get an error telling me the path is not allowed every time I try. Is there a way to ALLOW this using .htaccess or something?
JD Isaacks
I get this error when I try what you said: Warning: main(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/library/lib.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpsdocs:/tmp) :(
gnarf
Sounds to me like you need to complain to your hosting provider that /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com should be your "allowed path" not just httpsdocs or httpdocs. You may be able to override it with php_value open_basedir "/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com:/tmp" in your .htaccess - if that doesn't fix your problem - complain to your host
JD Isaacks
@gnarf, thanks what exactly should I put in my .htaccess file? this line exactly: [php_value open_basedir "/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com:/tmp"]? Thanks a lot for your help!
gnarf
I would hope that would work (updated the answer to include that option as well) - but if not - its just bad configuration of the hosting provider. Its foolish to put "library" files in your document root anyway.
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JD Isaacks
I am not sure, my hosting is LAMP, how would I go about creating one? Thanks.
JD Isaacks
I don't think I can, I looked it up and I guess I need terminal access to the server but I do not, I can ask my service provider to set it up, is it possible to make a symbolic link to a directory then any file I want to share put in that directory? Thanks
JD Isaacks
I also tried to create one using PHP's symlink() and I get an error saying: "Permission denied". Very frustrating.