Sorry about the double posting. I thought I sent the first email
before I was subscribed.
I definitely should've pointed out that the code works with safe_mode
off so I know the paths are correct.
I'm actually not the author of the code. I'm a sys admin trying to
upgrade the site with safe_mode on.
The target directory is a real world readable directory.
On Dec 12, 2007 3:43 PM, Daniel Brown <parasane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tony,
>
> Calm down. It may take us 21 minutes to respond sometimes, but we
> will. No need to repost. ;-P
>
> On Dec 12, 2007 3:26 PM, Tony Beyers <nigelmas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm running php 5.2.5 with these settings in a virtualhost block in
> > apache 2.0.61:
> > php_admin_flag safe_mode on
> > php_admin_value include_path "/afs/msu.edu/.../web"
> > php_admin_value safe_mode_include_dir "/afs/msu.edu/.../web"
> > I've got an index.php file in web/support/ that does a
> > require_once("../includes/support.php");
>
> Is there a specific reason you're using require_once() instead of
> include_once() ? There actually is a difference.... include() and
> include_once() will only include the file if that line of code is
> executed, whereas require() and require_once() will include the file
> even if the line is inside of an if() {} block for which the
> condition(s) are never matched.
>
> > Being in afs with write access from multiple people, the uids of the
> > files do not match and I get an error stating that. So I put the
> > safe_mode_include_dir line above in but it did not fix the problem
> > until I used the absolute path in the require_once line.
> > Is there a way to include files with relative paths?
>
> Of course there is. For example, say you're in a laterally-equal
> directory as one from which you want to include a file.
>
> <? include('../otherdir/file.php'); ?>
>
> As long as you have permissions to read the files, you're good to
> go. My guess is that you may have done the relative linking
> improperly. Is the file actually `web/includes/support.php` called
> from `web/index.php`?
>
> The other thing I would suggest is making sure your target include
> directory is a real directory and not a symlinked directory.
>
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