| Quote from: appleshaw |
| Have now taken the plunge with 4.2.4 Tried to read all posts but they are not al completely clear for an ancient. File permissions are obviously critical and there seems to be some difference between what Plus will allow and PGV prefers for installation. Suggestions that scripts need one permission doe not help when you do not know what they are. Any pointers to the different type of file/permission would be generally helpful here. |
If you are seeking information on how Linux file permissions work, the best source is a Google search. For Plusnet's ccgi platform required file permissions are explained in the
CGI platform PHP upgrade FAQ support library document. Despite anything that the PGV documentation says *no files* should be made writeable by anyone other than the owner, even on a temporary basis. Doing that will violate the suEXEC security model (see the FAQ), and just about everything is likely to stop working.
To sort permissions out I suggest using your FTP program to set *all*
file permissions to 0640 (using a facility that might be called recurse into subdirectories). Then use the script mentioned in the FAQ to set PHP file permissions to 0700 and directory permissions to 0710. Later it might be necessary to set some directories to 0750 (those associated with uploaded information), but that can be done where needed.
As okrzynska posted the execution error messages are associated with lack of space in /tmp used for saving session information and the workaround is to allocate your own by setting session.save_path in a private copy of php.ini (see those links). If you put that in your top level directory (permissions 0640) the following script will add a link to it into all subdirectories (apart from the session directory itself).
[code=linkphpini.cgi]#!/bin/bash
echo -e -n "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"
currdir=`pwd`
if [ ! -e ./php.ini ] ; then
echo "./php.ini file not found in $currdir"
exit 1
fi
pipath="$currdir/php.ini"
sessdir=`awk -F "/" '/^[ \t]*session.save_path *=/ \
{ gsub(/[ \t\r\n]/,"",$NF); printf("%s", $NF) }' ./php.ini`
if [ -z "$sessdir" ] ; then
echo "session save directory definition not found in ./php.ini"
exit 2
fi
echo -e "adding links to '$pipath'\ninto directories other than './$sessdir'"
find . -mindepth 1 -type d \( -name "$sessdir" -prune -o -print \) | \
while read i; do echo " $i"; ln -s "$pipath" $i; done
echo "done"[/code]
Upload this as linkphpini.cgi alongside php.ini, set permissions to 0700 and run by browsing to it.
Hope this moves installation forward.
David
David
