Re: [SLUG] Symlinks and PHP4

[O Plameras <oscarp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Palmer wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 07:08:20PM +1000, O Plameras wrote:
>  
>
> > Matthew Davidson wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Here's a really elementary question about symlinks that's taxing my 
> > > limited mental capacity:
> > >
> > > I want to write some php apps to be made available to a number of 
> > > virtual hosts on a web server.  It seems to me that you should be able 
> > > to put the apps themselves somewhere outside the web root, for 
> > > instance '/usr/share/phpapp', and have a symlink from the virtual 
> > > hosts web root, i.e.:
> > >
> > > /var/www/host.domain.tld/phpapp => /usr/share/phpapp
> > >      
> > You rename directories for httpd access using the 'Alias Directory'
> > command.  Renaming with 'ln -s' does not work.
> >    
>
>  
This is the specific command that one use in 'httpd.conf'
....
....

Alias /phpapp/ /usr/share/phpapp/
<Directory /usr/share/phpapp/>
   Options None
   Order deny,allow
   deny from all
   AuthType Basic
   ....
   ...
</Directory>


> But that's not a web thing, it's just that symlinks are often followed
> to their end before applying the '..', so you go to the place you didn't
> intend.
>
>  
>
> > But there is a conventional way to access PHP modules or include
> > files. This is done by declaring the directory from where to get the PHP
> > scripts to be included in your /etc/php.ini. Look for a line that says,
> >    
>
> Or, better still, use
> ini_set('include_path', '.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/phpapp'); at the top of
> your entry point, and all will be well.  Fiddling with include_path in
> php.ini shouldn't be done for one application -- imagine if I wanted to
> include something that also happened to be in /usr/share/phpapp... A train
> wreck could result.
>
>  
Programmers have their styles. I follow PHP programming conventions
that I know works and practised by many.

> > include_path = "/path1;,/path2; etc.............."
> >
> > It will look like so,
> >
> > include_path = ".;/usr/share/phpapp"
> >    
>
> Those should be colons, not semi-colons, unless you're running PHP in
> windows, in which case you've got bigger problems (like not having real
> symlinks).
>
>  

In /etc/php.ini the correct syntax is semi-colon ( ; ) and not colon (:).


> - Matt
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