[RESOLVED] Permission Denied trying to include() world-readable file

ppowell

include('./include/constants.inc.php');

This throws a warning:

Warning: main(./include/constants.inc.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/tools/app/index.php on line 43

The file "constants.inc.php" has permissions of 0774, it's world readable. I am at a loss. Even increased all the way to 0777, to no avail, still get "Permission denied".

HELP!
Thanx
Phil

devinemke

the directory must also be readable

ppowell

That's just it, it is readable, writeable and executable.

Phil

maxpup979

could it be that your constants page is trying to include something? That error just seems odd to me

cyberlew15

I had an error sort of like this with my webserver when I uploaded files if you are running linux set up cron or a shell script If you lioke I could post the shell script I used to use for croin to do it's job because it really does sound like a permissions problem

ppowell

Please do. I can't figure this one out, I even made the permissions 0777 and STILL get "Permission Denied", which is impossible!

Phil

cyberlew15

find /home/website/public_html -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /home/website/public_html -name ".php" -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /home/website/public_html -name ".inc" -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /home/website/public_html -name ".mnu" -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /home/website/public_html -name ".pag" -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /home/website/public_html -name ".htm" -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /home/website/public_html -name ".gif" -exec chmod 666 {} \;
find /home/website/public_html -name ".jpg" -exec chmod 666 {} \;
find /home/website/public_html -name ".jpeg" -exec chmod 666 {} \;
find /home/website/public_html -name ".zip" -exec chmod 666 {} \;
find /home/website/public_html -name ".rar" -exec chmod 666 {} \;
find /home/website/public_html -name ".png" -exec chmod 666 {} \;
find /home/website/public_html -name ".txt" -exec chmod 666 {} \;
find /home/website/public_html -name ".dat" -exec chmod 666 {} \;
find /home/website/public_html -name ".ht*" -exec chmod 666 {} \;

You Like 🙂
Remember It is always good to modify this on an open webserver for security reasons never do 777 on an open website because it leaves your system open for anone to write to if you must use a file manager do it through ftp & shell scripts

ppowell

I do, but it doesn't work 🙁

Even when I do "-exec chmod 777 {} \ " , the permissions will be set to 0777 alright, but I still get "Permission Denied" errors when trying to access (include()) constants.inc.php

Phil

cyberlew15

This seems like a server level error do you have .htaccess files on your server that you can view and change if so take a look at apache.org/docs otherwise you may want to contact the systems admin because it seems like this may be an internal server problem have you tried taking out the include or simp[ly creating a blank file that is included in a completely new php file i have heard of problems like this with IIS and Xitami which is why I use IIS for asp only, and ignore Xitami totally it's pants

ppowell

I wrote a very simple PHP script that I put into /var/www/html, into /var/www/html/tools and to /var/www/html/tools/app called test.php:

<?php
// test.php
echo 'Hello ';
echo''Is file /var/www/html/tools/app/include/constants.inc.php? '; 
print_r(is_file('/var/www/html/tools/app/include/constants.inc.php'));
echo ' Goodbye';
?>

Results were FALSE for every instance of test.php I ran. However, I go to the terminal to prove that that file "constants.inc.php" not only exists, but has permissions of 0777 and has content that I can view using any text editing program I want.

I even tried pulling up "constants.inc.php" directly, only to get a 403 Forbidden, even though the file has permissions of 0777.

What on earth?

Environment: Fedora Core 4, PHP 4.3.11, PHP 5.0.4 and Windows XP

Phil

cyberlew15

Okay I would recommend GNU Linux for a webserver over Fedora but that aside are you running the webserver as a symlink to a fat32 directory that is automounted or anything besides the common linux filesystem. whatever is wrong and beleive me there is something seriously wrong with both of your systems is it a sandbox or can't you check system files and app dir's. also is there anything other than apache that you are running on both setups if apache is the linking factor on both and the servers are both in your home reinstall apache from zip php from zip etc even dump httpd.conf and start again.

ppowell

Two completely separate systems.

Windows XP, Apache 2.0.54, PHP 5.0.4 - all is well with constants.inc.php on that end

Fedora Core 4, Apache 2.0.53, PHP 4.3.11 - Permission denied trying to get ../include/constants.inc.php with permissions of 0777. The directory it's in "include" has permissions of 0774. Its parent directory, "ivc" has permissions of 0770 but Apache has full access rights to it since it is part of the "apache" group that "ivc" folder is under (owner/group: "phillip/apache").

Phil

cyberlew15

why don't you cange ivc to 776 just for a test see if that fixes it if it does leave it alone

ppowell

It worked! I changed /app/include to 0775 and that did the trick! My UNIX knowledge is a bit fuzzy but I think the problem stemmed from apache's inability to have rights to execute on the /include directory, thus it had no right to do anything with /include/constants.inc.php, or anything else in there for that matter.

Unfortunately due to government security regulations for what I'm doing, I can't do that and have to change the group to the group that includes myself and apache, which only "root" can do, which will have to wait until the admin comes back on vacation.

Phil

cyberlew15

Okay Mr Bond This advice will self-destruct in ten seconds 🙂 (government security regulations lol when they listen to what I say I'll be for more likely to listen to what they want)