Apache settings for vhosts

Patric.F · 12-20-2010, 04:41 AM

Hi,

I have a friend that has a problem with his site on my server.
He doesn't have any problem on other servers so I guess there's something wrong in the config that I can change.

The site is in /html_doc and then he has a couple of other forlders for example, /api
In /api he tries to specify a file that's in the root of /html_doc like this:

Code:

require_once('inc/lang/'.$language.'/config.php');

I receive an error that the file can not be found but this fixes the problem:

Code:

require_once('../html_doc/inc/lang/'.$language.'/config.php');

Apparently it works on other servers so I'm wondering if I'm suppose to add something in his vhost that will fix this?

I think it can be fixed with settings in:

Code:

<Directory /var/www/domain
</Directory>

Right now I don't have one like that for him so I guess it uses the standard for /var/www/ which is:

Code:

<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

If you see an obvious security-flaw or something you are more than welcome to criticize my configurtation, it's old and it just works so..

Thanks,

EDIT:

This is his vhost:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/domain/html_doc
ServerName www.domain.com
ServerAlias domain.com
TransferLog /var/log/apache2/domain.log
</VirtualHost>

smoker · 12-20-2010, 04:51 AM

inc/lang should be /inc/lang

as it is it will try to find inc/lang inside api.
His problem not yours or apache's.

Patric.F · 12-20-2010, 06:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smoker

inc/lang should be /inc/lang

as it is it will try to find inc/lang inside api.
His problem not yours or apache's.

Thanks for the quick reply, I will talk to him about it.
But one thing that is weird.

Code:

require_once('admin_mod.php');

doesn't work but this does:

Code:

require_once('./admin_mod.php');

to me that is pretty much the same thing!? So is there something that I have misconfigured?

smoker · 12-20-2010, 10:01 AM

it looks to me like the php script needs absolute or relative urls to work. I can't think of anything you could have misconfigured to make someone's script do that. Is there a base path or base url that's not set right in the php script ?

Patric.F · 12-21-2010, 02:42 AM

These are the only things I can find about any paths. Of course the site is pretty complicated so there's a lot of code involved.
To me that doesn't look wrong, but hey I'm no programmer.

Code:

define('webLocation','/');

define('workDir','/var/www/domain/html_doc/');

define('APPLICATION_PATH','/var/www/domain/html_doc/');

This is the error I get about it can't find admin_mod.php, in this script it isn't located in the same directory but it does chdir('../'); right before

Code:

Warning: require_once(admin_mod.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/domain/html_doc/admin/news/add.php on line 3

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'admin_mod.php' (include_path='/usr/share/php') in /var/www/domain/html_doc/admin/news/add.php on line 3

and after I add ./ in front of the admin_mod.php it start to work.. I have NO idea what could be wrong here and it's driving me nuts..
Any ideas of thing I can try? Maybe add something so it logs more specifically or something!?

EDIT:

I'm running Debian Lenny by the way.

Patric.F · 12-21-2010, 02:58 AM

He keeps telling me that he doesn't have the right permissions. How can he not have the right permissions?
Can I set permissions in PHP for users? If so, how do I change it?

Thanks,

Patric.F · 12-21-2010, 04:24 AM

I made a test script on my own site like this:

/test/test.php:

Code:

<?php

chdir('../');

require_once('req.php');

echo "helo";

?>

/req.php:

Code:

<?php

echo "You're in root\n";

?>

And I get this:

Code:

Warning: require_once(req.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/mydomain/test/test.php on line 5

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'req.php' (include_path='/usr/share/php') in /var/www/fdab-joomla/test/test.php on line 5

The same error as on the other site so obviously this Should work right?

EDIT:

Ok so I tried on one of my friends servers and this script works fine there, so there is obviously a misconfig somewhere on the server.
I don't know if it's Apache or PHP?

Patric.F · 12-21-2010, 04:41 AM

I got so pissed that I took the standard apache2.conf and replaced it with mine just to see if it solved the problem, but it didn't.
So I took the standard php.ini -file and changed it with mine and now it works. Apparently there is some configuration in there that on of my friends made a while back when I installed the server, I have never personally edit that file my self.

Anyway, it works now! Thanks for your support.

-Patric

Patric.F · 12-21-2010, 04:53 AM

haha ok so I just found what messed it up.
By standard this is commented like this:

Code:

;include_path = ".:/usr/share/php"

When I checked my php.ini it looked like this:

Code:

include_path = "/usr/share/php"

Without the comment AND WITHOUT the ".:" in front of the path.. When I added ".:" it started working again so that's what messed it up