clancy_1@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I am using a Quadra Hosting Multi Domain (http://www.quadrahosting.com.au/) to host five > different domains. As site owner I have FTP access to the root directory, and to > everything underneath it. There is no domain directly attached to the root. Each domain > has its own directory tree under the root directory, and I have a separate directory > Engine containing the PHP code for all the sites. Each domain directory has a series of > data files defining the various pages, optionally some configuration files, and a very > short program index.php, which sets up a few user variables, and then passes control to > the main program in Engine (by including it). The Engine processes a set of parameters, > and from these generates the actual page which is passed to the user. The data files are > almost entirely simple text files, and I do not use a database. > > The permissions are currently as they were set up by the provider. All directories in the > system have permissions drwxr-xr-x, and all other files rw-r--r-- (when I read them as > site owner -- I don't know if they are somehow changed when I access the site by > downloading a page from one of the domains). I can load and run any of the files in Engine > by including them into Index.php, and I can include images anywhere in the domain in the > current page. I can also download them directly by quoting their full path. I can also > show pages defined by data files in Engine, but I can neither show nor download images in > Engine. I haven't tried accessing pages in other domains. > > As the permissions for group and others are the same for all directories, and all files, I > don't understand how I can download images in the current domain, but not in Engine. Is it > possible to reset the permissions so that different values are seen from different > domains, and how can I tell which group I am actually in when I access a particular > domain? Also is it possible to temporarily include a user in group, if they are not > already there? > > Clancy. > > (The PHP manual has been down all day, and Google is not particularly helpful for this > type of thing unless you already know the terminology, so I have largely been floundering > in the dark. And when you look up 'user permissions' most books immediately assume > database.) > Hi Clancy, If I read what you are saying correctly you have the following directory tree /SiteA/ <-- domain files /SiteB/ <-- domain files /SiteC/ <-- domain files /Engine <-- private files if this is correct then: www.somesite.com is mapped to /SiteA/ so if you have the file /SiteA/test.jpg you can access it via www.somesite.com/test.jpg if I'm still correct.. then the problem is that /Engine/ *is not* mapped to any domain - thus you can't access it via http. Any request to www.somesite.com/Engine/test.jpg will map to /SiteA/Engine/test.jpg and not /Engine/test.jpg as you'd want. If I'm wrong the you need to explain some more :) Regards, Nathan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
