absolute path vs relative

zzz

Hi,

I've got a regular domain on shared server and a subdomain, which is also secured with SSL

https://secured.domain.com (which is domain.com/secured)

I'm trying to come up with a solution that will allow me share files, such as images between both domain and subdomain. I know I have to use absolute path but I run into problems when it comes to my secured directory.

Eg. I have this structure:

domain.com/images
or
domain.com/includes

Now I'm able to get includes by using absolute path: /home/www/domain/includes/file, but when I try to do the same with images I can't get it to work. If I look at the path of the broken images on the page it looks ridiculos: https://secured.domain.com/home/www/domain/iimages/file

I also get the following message:

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'includes/file' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php/share/pear') in /home/www/domain/includes/file.php on line 2

What's include_path='.:/usr/local/php/share/pear' and how do I include that path. Sounds like it's something to do with php.ini file.
I probably won't have access to php.ini file, since I'm a shared server, tried it before.

Now what am I doing wrong?

paulnaj

I haven't used an https server before, but this might help ...

First of all, have you definitely been able to 'include' when there no images?
And then, if you add an image to the html, it then generates that error?

Is that right?

Suppose the problem is the includes ...

It says in the manual that allow_url_fopen must be enabled.

If you haven't already, try putting this page on both your servers:
<?php
phpinfo(); //(displays PHP config table)
?>
You can at least then check to see about 'allow_url_fopen' on this page. Otherwise ask the server people about it.

If it's the images causing the problem in some way ...

If it's that the images are being requested from a different server, which might be the case here (I don't know) then there is possibly a security issue.
Just like in HTML email, every time the image is requested, the server hosting the image could be activated into doing something.

This might be an issue with an HTTPS server.

Again, check with the host, if in doubt.

Hope that helps!
P.

rpanning

I do something like this over 7 domains. There is one folder on the file system that is accessable by all domains. How you ask? The alias directive in the Apache config. Basicly there is one folder on the filesysem and Apache "maps" a virtual folder to that folder. That way I only have to update files in one spot.

zzz

Both of my domain and subdomain are on the same server, with the same dedicated IP adderss. Includes are working just fine. I see text in the included files but do not see images, even though I believe the path is correct.

I just wanted to be able to use images by both.

Weedpacket

Originally posted by zzz
Both of my domain and subdomain are on the same server, with the same dedicated IP adderss. Includes are working just fine. I see text in the included files but do not see images, even though I believe the path is correct.

I just wanted to be able to use images by both.

Are you requestion the images through the same protocols as the pages on which they're displayed (i.e., using an [url]https://[/url] url on the https domain and similarly for http)? If not, the client might be balking at mixing content from encrypted and unencrypted sources.