[Resolved] Stange includes issue

G-Net

I'm currently working on a site, which I've run into a weird issue involving include files.

On several pages, we include several files from several locations. The main location has 2 different types of files we include (.php and .map for image maps). There are 2 different PHP files I include, and 1 image map. These are outside of the web tree.

The problem is, although all of the files are readable, only 1 of the PHP files will include. file_exists returns true, but is_readable returns nothing for the one that won't include, altho it has the same permissions as the other. Same with the .map file.

I CAN include them in the same directory, so I don't think it's a MIME type issue. And in doing the include, I'm doing the following:

require("/full/path/to/files/file_colors.php");

Any ideas would be very much welcomed. TIA!

liquorvicar

sounds like a permissions issue. is_readable returns TRUE if the file is readable so it sounds like that is failing.

if the files have exactly the same permissions, check the directories they are in.

G-Net

It has to be a permissions issue, but the files are in the same directory, are all owned by the same user (apache), and have the same exact setting (rw-rw-r--). I don't get it. :queasy:

liquorvicar

are you getting an error on the include? how do you know it's not being included? have you tried writing a test control script and including it into that?

G-Net

I tried copying the files to another directory and include them there. They're being created by a cron job, and they appear to now be owned as root with -rwxr-xr-x. After copying them over, and including them, the image map code will now include, but the sto_colors.php file fails. I get a permission denied error.

Could this be a PHP setting? I was assuming, even tho it's owned by root, since it was world readable, I could still include it.

Thanks for the help.

G-Net

OK. Here's what further testing has shown. Here's a directory structure of the test directory:

-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 608 Apr 11 10:41 index.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 661 Apr 11 09:07 sto_colors.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 9149 Apr 11 09:07 sto.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 152 Apr 8 08:37 test.crests
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 149 Apr 8 08:37 test.inc
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 149 Apr 8 08:36 test.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 149 Apr 11 09:08 test.php

Everything includes fine except sto_colors.php, which returns a permission denied message. test.php, which simply sets to vars and outputs a table saying it was included, works.

For testing , here's the contents of sto_colors.php:

<?php
$colors=array("gage"=>"color", "lsbc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "mosc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "clkc1"=>"#BDC2BB", 
"tisc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "thtc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "rdbc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "atic1"=>"#BDC2BB", 
"btcc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "rmsc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "gric1"=>"#BDC2BB", "ncoc1"=>"#BDC2BB", 
"sacc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "hamc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "mhbc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "cluc1"=>"#BDC2BB", 
"vonc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "clsc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "tehc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "patc1"=>"#BDC2BB", 
"vnsc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "samc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "bdbc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "vwbc1"=>"#BDC2BB", 
"mdsc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "rvbc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "orfc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "mcnc1"=>"#BDC2BB", 
"obbc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "clac1"=>"#BDC2BB", "yubc1"=>"#BDC2BB", "fmwc1"=>"#BDC2BB");
?>

Thanks again for the help in this...

liquorvicar

can you post the (relevant) contents of index.php and test.php?

G-Net

We figured out what was happening.

The script that was creating the files that wouldn't include was corrupting them. Therefore, PHP couldn't open it. So we now run dos2unix on the files, and it works fine.

Thanks for helping. I hope this helps someone in the future.

G-Net

Actually, it was an issue with SELinux. When it was turned off, everything included perfectly.

So for anyone who uses Fedora and has this same issue, I hope this helps.