Apache (Linux) Path Ownership Issue?

steelheadwook

I just setup an LAMP (Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL) server and am having problems with relative path ownership.

I'm able to run any PHP code when it resides in the same path. If I try to access anthing in a relative path, I get an error:
failed to open stream: No such file or directory.

The virtual host directory file owner = mscdev3 and file group = mscdev3. Permissions are set to 777.

Do I need to set the file ownership to apache and leave the file group set to mscdev3?

The virtual host's document root is set to /var/www/html/mscdev3.

Any help would be appreciated.

mrhappiness

No such file or directory normally means that there is no such file or directory 🙂
It does not mean that the file exists but you are not allowed to access it.

please provide some sampl ecode

btw: instead of trying to access $file do

$testfile = realpath($file);
echo '<hr />Trying to access: '.$testfile.'<hr />';

what doe sit produce?

and next time please post the complete error message, afair it tells you which files has not been found in what directory

steelheadwook

I'm trying to use a GPL mail form called MMEX (see http://www.arecaweb.com/php/newmmex/index.php?P=download)

I setup a test site on my Apache server called http://mscdev3. Next, I created a directory called MMX where I uploaded the MMX code and subdirectories.

Specifically, I'm getting an error in mmex.php on line 41.

Line 41 contains the following code:

require('/sample/SampleSettings.php');

The SampleSettings.php file resides in a sample subdirectory of MMX (i.e. /mscdev3/MMX/sample/SampleSettings.php).

The SampleSettings.php file is a configuration file for MMX per the readme.html file.

I suspect that my document relative path isn't correct. If so, what should it be?

mrhappiness

have a look at $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] and use this for your file access

or don't use the leading /

i suggest using

require $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/MMX/sample/SampleSettings.php';

if that won't work, please post the value of $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] and the output of my code in my first post

steelheadwook

I answered my own question 😃 . My problem was the document relative path.

I changed require('/sample/SampleSettings.php');

require('sample/SampleSettings.php');

and everything worked.

Thanks.