Re: [openupload-devel] permissions on templates_c

[gmartin <gm...@gm...>]

I'm confused.  Does each of your sites have its own /www & config.inc.php?
 If so, wouldn't separate $CONFIG['DATA_PATH'] paths take care to separate
the data & templates_c directories?


\\Greg



On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Alessandro Briosi <ts...@br...>wrote:

> Il 19.06.2012 19:53 Bob Miller ha scritto:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I have set up openupload as a multisite installation on a server that
> > uses mpm-itk.  In case you are not familiar, mpm-itk is an apache2
> > package that changes uid of the web server based on the URL it is
> > serving, so that each site can be owned by an individual user.
> > Similar
> > to suexec, and others I am sure.
> >
> > The problem I am encountering is with making the templates_c
> > directory
> > writable by the web server.  Since the web server has a different uid
> > depending on the site it is serving, owning the templates_c directory
> > to
> > the web server denies access to the directory.
> >
> > This creates a situation where I need to either make the templates_c
> > directory world writable (undesirable on several levels), or I need
> > to
> > add each site's uid to a group and grant that group write access to
> > templates_c (better, but administratively burdensome).  Both of these
> > ideas tested as working on a sandbox server, but I am searching for
> > better options for production use.
> >
> > If the world was aligned to my desires, I would be able to have a
> > separate templates_c directory for each site on the server that I
> > could
> > keep with each site's data and www directory.  So far no amount of
> > experimenting or googling has led me to a method where this can be
> > accomplished, and I am not so good with code that I have been able to
> > decipher where or how I might implement that.
> >
> > So the questions would be: is it possible to have a separate
> > templates_c
> > directory for each site?  If there is any documentation, I haven't
> > found
> > it, a pointer would be kindly appreciated.  And, assuming I cannot
> > have
> > a separate templates_c directory for each site, can anyone suggest a
> > cleaner way to allow all sites write access to the templates_c
> > directory?
> >
>
> Yes it's possible and it's even already available (not documented
> though).
> Use the $CONFIG['SMARTY_DATA'] variable.
>
> For more information look at the lib/base.inc.php
>
> Alessandro
>
>
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