Re: [SM-USERS] File Manager Plugin

[David E. M. <de...@et...>]

> actually, given your clarification above, i would have guessed that the
> problem is that wwwrun needs +rw access to the base dir and everything
> inside of it.  that is, your base dir might need to be owned by
> webuser:wwwclient, but for file manager to work right, Apache needs wri=
te
> access to the base..... oh, wait.  egads, you've opened the basedir up =
to
> the world!  you sure you want to do that?  maybe an option would be to =
add
> apache to the wwwclient group instead.

You're right, letting the world write to the base dir is not the safest,
but convenient for testing.

> i would also think safe_mode_include_dir might work; keep looking. migh=
t
> be related to ownership/permissions of the included dirs, who knows....

After reading a "bug-report" (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=3D20054)
concerning the same matter I found out that the safe_mode_include_dir
variable only lets you read files from that directory. This explains also
why I get the same error when setting the base dir to the default value
"/usr/local/lib/php" of safe_mode_include_dir in the php.ini file.

Since I always get the warning that the script owned by webusr is not
allowed to use opendir() on the base directory owned by wwwrun, I come to
the conclusion that either:

-) you need to turn off safe mode, or
-) apache needs to run as user owning the script, which in turn would not
work in a virtual hosting environment.

But since this plugin is around for a while, I doubt that I am right... ;=
-)