admin_php_value open_basedir

dylanmhulderman

Hello, I have WAMP installed on my Windows XP and I'm trying to set it up so that any subfolder under the domain http://www.domainname.com/folder_name has a restriction to itself, and cannot go any higher than it's own folder. So, it will not be able to access http://www.domainname.com/, but it will be able to access http://www.domainname.com/folder_name/anything_in_here.... Here is the code I put in my httpd.conf for Apache:

<DIRECTORY "C:/wamp/www/*/">
 php_admin_value open_basedir "C:/wamp/www/*/"
</DIRECTORY>

But I just can't get it to work...

dalecosp

I don't believe that open_basedir understands the wildcard. Try listing all the subdirectories explicitly.

dylanmhulderman

In the end I just removed the ability for other users to sign up for free hosting and added two open_basedir commands in the httpd.conf file:

<Directory "C:/wamp/www/">
 admin_php_value open_basedir "C:/wamp/www"
</Directory>
<Directory "C:/wamp/www/Ultimate Designz/">
 admin_php_value open_basedir "C:/wamp/www/Ultimate Designz/"
</Directory>

It's too bad I couldn't figure out a way to automatically restart my Apache server every time the httpd.conf file is edited.

dalecosp

Got cron? (and, probably, sudo(8)? )That'd be one way. Your program would have to keep tabs on the last changed date of httpd.conf, wake up every $n minutes, and if the modification date of httpd.conf differed from the last changed date, call apachectl graceful.

dylanmhulderman

I've read about all that stuff... how do I get the "apachectl graceful" command to fire off?

dalecosp

Perhaps [man]system/man, or one of the similar calls.

dylanmhulderman

So I don't have to get a C complier and stuff to write the code? 'Cause I was looking on the internet and all the codes that fire off apache graceful have like #include stdafx.sh and stuff... and you need a C compiler to make that stuff. I know how to do all that, my question is do I have to?

bradgrafelman

"apachectl" is an executable program installed by Apache, so no, there's no reason you'd have to write and compile your own program just to execute another program.

dylanmhulderman

So how exactly do you do it then?

johanafm

as previously posted

dylanmhulderman

Yeah but that doesn't tell me the syntax man... I think I understand what you mean though...

<?php system('apachectl graceful'); ?>

Right?

bradgrafelman

Few things:

johanafm didn't spoonfeed you the code because he probably felt it wasn't necessary (dalecosp already provided the manual link for system() as well as the shell command to execute).
apachectl is a nix-only program. I didn't notice you were using Windows before, otherwise I would have mentioned this earlier.
I've never used (nor advocated the use of) any of the *AMP packages, so I have no idea how WAMP installs Apache.

However, Apache is normally installed as a Windows service, meaning you can execute commands like "net start Apache2.2" to start the service. Note that "Apache2.2" is the default service name (I think) for the 2.2 branch of Apache httpd, but is in no way the only valid choice (the service can be given any name at the time it is installed), so you'd have to figure out whether or not WAMP changes that.
Depending upon how PHP is invoked, it may or may not have permissions to start/stop a Windows service. Rather than going into a lengthy discussion of that, however, I'll instead suggest that you work on the above items and see if you can get it to work. If it comes down to modifying the permissions of the service (and/or escalating the privileges of the PHP interpreter when invoked for this script)... well, we can cross that bridge if and when we get to it. 🙂