Re: restricting filesystem access

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On Mon, March 31, 2008 3:21 am, Hamar Gábor wrote:
> I am a new php user and I have a question, for which I couldn't find
> any
> answer.
>
> I'd like to restrict php code to access the filesystem. I'd like to
> have
> only one directory where the php code can write, create or read files,
> and an other directory hierarchy where the php codes present. I need
> this to avoid php code to rewrite other php code in case of bug and/or
> an attack.
>
> I already tried the open_basedir directive, but it couldn't work
> because
> in this case the executed php have to be in the accessable directory
> hierarchy.

PHP runs as the Apache user.

chown/chmod the source files to not be writable by that user.

Problem solved.

No real PHP "trick" here.

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