.htaccess php directives - format

[Anon]

Hi,
I am trying to find out the correct format for entering PHP directives in .htacceess. In particular I want to set open_basedir via a .htacess on a site. Can sks please let me know the appropriate command to use. Have tried a couple of methods which have promptly bombed the site :-(

cheers
Jim

[mithril]

Umm... there isn't an "open_basedir" config directive that I'm aware of, so that's probably why your site is getting bombed when you try to set it. What are you trying to accomplish with this directive? It's quite likely you're thinking of a valid directive, just using the wrong name.

Regarding your syntax question, there are four Apache directives which can be used to set PHP config options in httpd.conf and .htaccess files. They are:

  php_flag
  php_value
    - used to set options in both httpd.conf and .htaccess

  php_admin_flag
  php_admin_value
    - can be used to set options only httpd.conf

More info about these directives is in Ch. 3 of the PHP manual. The syntax for all is as follows:

&nbsp;&nbsp;directive_name <i>name</i> <i>value</i>

HTH.

geoff

[Anon]

Hi- was talking about:
"open_basedir string
With the use of the open_basedir option you can limit which files can be opened from PHP scripts.
When a script tries to open a file with, for example, fopen or gzopen, the location of the file is checked. When the file is outside the specified directory tree, PHP will refuse to open it. All symbolic links are resolved, so it's not possible to bypass this restriction with a symbolic link.
If you use a single dot, PHP will only open files in the directory the script is stored or any directory below it. You can specify multiple directories, just like you can with include_path."

so that would be :
php_value open_basedir /path/to/root/dir/I/wnat/ ?

cheers
Jim

The default is to allow all files to be opened.