On 11/1/07 10:22 AM, "Daniel Brown" <parasane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/1/07, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 09:06 -0400, Rahul Sitaram Johari wrote: >>> Ave, >>> >>> Somehow my PHP won't access, won't even acknowledge the existence of a file >>> that is outside the /Library/WebServer/Documents folder. This was never a a >>> problem before in any Mac version - it just started with Leopard. >>> >>> I don't know what has changed where, in httpd.conf or php.ini or somewhere >>> else, but something changed that's crippling access to files outside of the >>> webserver. >>> >>> This Works in Mac OS X 10.3.9 (i.e., prints File Exists) but the same exact >>> script does not work in Mac OS X 10.5, and yes, the file is available in >>> Leopard in the mentioned location - path is exact same - permissions are all >>> set: >>> >>> $filename = "/Users/username/Documents/Transfers/test.txt"; >>> if (file_exists($filename)) { >>> echo "The file $filename exists<br><br>"; >>> } else { >>> echo "The file $filename does not exist<br><br>"; >>> } >>> >>> I¹ve already checked safe_mode which is Off and open_basedir which is not >>> set same settings as php.ini from before. >>> Any ideas what might be causing this? > > Also make sure that it's not something simple that you may have > accidentally overlooked as well: > > 1.) Did you restart Apache after making any changes to php.ini or > httpd.conf? > 2.) The path is cAsE-sEnSiTiVe. Did you make sure that it's > EXACTLY the same? > 3.) Is any part of that symlinked, and if so, does Apache allow > FollowSymLinks? > 4.) Is the account jailed or chroot'ed? 1) Checked! 2) Checked! 3) It is symlinked indeed!! Where in httpd.conf do I need to specify FollowSymLinks? I'm running Apache 2.2.6 with PHP 5.2.4 on Mac OS X 10.5 4) chroot'ed? Basically I'm mounting a windows network share on a share point and during mount I'm giving it full read/write permissions. (mount_smbfs -f 777 -d 777 //user:pwd@ip/share sharePoint) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rahul Sitaram Johari CEO, Twenty Four Seventy Nine Inc. W: http://www.rahulsjohari.com E: sleepwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ³I morti non sono piu soli ... The dead are no longer lonely² -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php