Problem with include_path

prosolutions

using: php 4.0.6 /Apache1.3/Win98se

If I set the php include_path in either php.ini or the .htaccess the page is not formed correctly

e.g. if in the .htaccess I put: php_value include_path "c:\include"
or if in the php.ini I put: include_path="c:\include"

All I Get is: (I changed first html brackets to - incase it gets renderd by the browser!)

-!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
-HTML>-HEAD>
-META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type>
-META content="MSHTML 5.00.3314.2100" name=GENERATOR>-/HEAD>
-BODY>-/BODY>-/HTML>

Even if I just set it to the default (current directory) value "." I get the same.

If I do the same on a Linux box it works?????

If I move the relevent included files to the same dir as the calling program and remove the include_path
it works ok???

Any Ideas ?
Thanks
Chris

prosolutions

A Bit more info...

I am changing the include path in .htaccess
file and is currently:
php_value include_path ".;..\include"

I turned on PHP warnings and I get:
"Warning: Failed opening '/home/chrisbetts/public_html/blank.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;..\include') in Unknown on line 0"

i.e it is failing to load the file it is loading at present (blank.php) ?????

I am (up to this point sucessfully) mimiking the layout of my clients virtual servers running on different Linux boxes, So I can test complete installations on a PC before upload. To do this I am using Apache Virtual Servers each one having its own DocumentRoot pointing to the public_html subdirectory.

i.e. in httpd_conf
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.2>
DocumentRoot /home/chrisbetts/public_html

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.3>
DocumentRoot /home/anothervs/public_html
etc...

What I am trying to do is to move certain sensitive data to a safe area out of the public_html subtree, which is possibly accessable from any tree.

So I now have dirs:
/home/chrisbetts/include
/home/chrisbetts/public_html

safe_mode is off

I think that this is something to do with not being able to escape from the DocumentRoot ... but not sure.

As I say it works on the linux Virtual servers ... But I am missing something on the Windowz version!

I should probably move this request over to the installation section now!

Any Ideas would be a great help.

Chris

prosolutions

Ok Sorted it!!!!

A little one to watch out for...

In the virtual server setup in httpd.conf I had:

DocumentRoot /home/chrisbetts/public_html

Note the lack of drive ID!

This works as expected if you DO NOT have an include_path
in either your php.ini or .htaccess files.

However if you do set an include_path (even if you redefine the
default path of ".") ALL attempts to execute a PHP script
(even a simple script comprising nothing more than <?="hello";?>)

will fail and you will get a warning like:

"Warning: Failed opening '/home/chrisbetts/public_html/blank.php'
for inclusion (include_path='.') in Unknown on line 0"

Solution:
Simply fully define the path INCLUDING the Drive ID

DocumentRoot c:/home/chrisbetts/public_html

I assume that it is a problem with the way the new include_path
is parsed or added to the DocumentRoot!

You have no idea how long I have searched for that!
Its the sort of thing you go blind to after scanning lines of code
for hours on end!

I hope this helps someone in the future!!!!

Chris