[pmwiki-users] Generating incorrect URLs

Rik Sarkar rik at cs.sunysb.edu
Wed Dec 6 12:48:58 CST 2006


On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Michael Brenner wrote:

> The Files in wiki.d/ should tell you the username of php.
>
> Another idea is to delete(/backup) wiki.d/ and make the pmwiki/ directory
> temporary writable for others(php). I think mkdirp() creates the directory
> wiki.d/ if it does not exists and afterwards it has the correct owner.

Yes, I have tried that. In fact, I tried with rwx to all in the pmwiki/
directory. The wiki.d/ got created with an administrator id as the owner
(I suppose that is the phpowner), but the file_exists() still fails! I
will look for more on file_exists() on the web.

Thanks anyway.

Rik.

>
> BTW: The file_exists() thing seems to be a problem of older php-versions and
> safe_mode. Search-Engines might tell you more.
>
> Am Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2006 22:58 schrieben Sie:
> > This looks promising, how do I find the username of phpowner ?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Rik
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Michael Brenner wrote:
> > > Hi again,
> > >
> > > on  php.net[3] someone wrote this[1], even so I don't have such problems
> > > with safe_mode with the same setup.  Probably paranoid config[2] in
> > > php.ini.
> > >
> > > [1]--------------
> > >  stefan at horn dot nl
> > > 12-Jul-2006 08:30
> > > file_exists and safe_mode
> > >
> > > file_exists under safe_mode works (I work with for php 4) doesn't work
> > > when owner of the dir where the file stands differs from the php-owner.
> > >
> > > e.g. file_exists in this dir will give FALSE nevertheless the file exists
> > >
> > > rights          owner  dir
> > > drwxr-xr-x    apache  images
> > >
> > > change the owner of the dir to the phpowner and file_exists works.
> > >
> > > I spent too much time to discover. Hope it will spare a lot of your time.
> > >
> > > Stefan
> > >
> > > [2]--------------
> > > http://de.php.net/manual/en/features.safe-mode.functions.php
> > >
> > > [3]--------------
> > > http://de.php.net/manual/en/function.file-exists.php
> > >
>




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