I think you might be unable to access documents outside the root if you're in safe mode.
Just out of curiosity--have you tried su-ing to the Apache user and executing your script as that user? On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 21:36, David Cook wrote: > Hi again all > > Just a bit more info, trying to track some more things down. > > I made a few changes, changed getmail so that it would allow the getmailrc > file to be group writable, made a few changes to the user/group structure > (including making apache a member of a specific new group, and then setting > that group read/write on the getmailrc file (in theory now, apache should > have read/write permissions to the file via the group), and did a bit more > testing. > > Results, > > Executing the cgi script from command line still works (in that it displays > results, whereas from the web the cgi STIL says that the file doesnt exist > (this is via a quick if(file_exists($getmailfile)) etc.. etc..(least I didnt > break anything else) :) > > I find this interesting, as the file definately DOES exist, and further, > theoretically the web server should have access via the group permissions. > > I was a little curious if this may be a bahaviour of the apache php module, > in that it is incapable of working with files outside docroot? this should > not be the case though, as with a number of the other modules I am using, > and have written, files get written to temp (while they are being uploaded) > and other files are written outside docroot for other purposes, without any > real problems so far, this is getting curiouser and curiouser as Alice said > > Any suggestions or thoughts anyone? > > Puzzled. > > David Cook > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
