On Thu, May 12, 2005 12:48 pm, dan said:
I'm trying to override the value of php.ini's 'auto_prepend_file' function, inside of an Apache Directory container. I'm not having much luck. In fact, no luck at all. This never happens.
So I'm wondering now, are functions set by 'php_value' inside of an Apache config file only good for the entire VirtualHost in question, or can they be applied on a per-directory basis using Apache's Directory directive?
Certainly some php_value directives can be over-ridden in .htaccess, regardless of whether they were set globally in httpd.conf or in a VirtualHost or Directory block.
Equally certainly, some cannot be over-ridden.
I am almost 100% certain that php_value makes no distinction between *where* in httpd.conf the setting comes from. I daresay php_value in .htaccess can't even tell the difference from one part of httpd.conf to the other.
http://php.net/ has a page devoted to describing exactly which php_value settings can be over-ridden where. Check that.
It's also possible that once auto_prepend_file is set, it's set, and that's it -- Regardless of where it is set, you're stuck with it at that value.
So it's more of a 'define' for a constant that some kind of variable you can change on a whim. Part of that could easily be to provide web host administrators with a way to guarantee that some PHP code of theirs gets run no matter what their clients may try to do... Which I could see might be handy for some hosts, and they'd not want it over-ridden. These last two paragraphs are pure speculation on my part. But it could be true, and it wouldn't really fit into that nifty chart in the manual.
Richard -
Yes, I agree with you. I think it's an "all-on" or "all-off" sort of thing, and you cannot be terribly specific with it's usage. THe only way I've found to combat this issue is to make a different virtualhost or some such, which is what I'm ging to end up doing.
I did take a look at php.net's page devoted to describing exactly which php_value settings can be over-ridden, and it does claim that this option can be set in a per-directory context.
Thanks for your time -dant
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