On Oct 28, 2011, at 7:19 AM, Geoff Shang wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Tedd Sperling wrote: > >> You answered a question I wasn't prepared to ask, which was "How can php >> scripts be executed when their execute permissions aren't set?" > > Because as far as the system is concerned, the thing which is being executed > is either PHP itself or something in which PHP is being run (e.g. Apache). > The fact that PHP then loads a script and executes it is not really the point. > > When used in websites, it's the webserver itself which loads the PHP > interpreter which in turn loads the script. > > So the webserver needs to be executable. The Apache module, for example, > does not because Apache loads it into Apache which is already running. > > If you're not actually running programs on the host itself via a shell, then > you probably won't need execute permissions most of the time. > > Geoff.
Geoff: Thanks -- this is one of those things that normally "goes without saying" but by doing so remains a question to some. Cheers, tedd _____________________ t...@sperling.com http://sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
