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Re: [phpGroupWare-users] "Files Directory must be outside of webservers
From: |
Chris Weiss |
Subject: |
Re: [phpGroupWare-users] "Files Directory must be outside of webservers document root" - but it is! |
Date: |
Wed, 9 Apr 2008 10:15:25 -0500 |
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Dave Hall <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 22:37 +0200, Dirk H. Schulz wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I am setting up phpgroupware on MacOS X 10.4.11 with PHP5 and MySQL5 - so
> > far no problem, everything works fine. Current phpgroupware with fixes from
> > cvs, of course.
> >
> > Only the files/groups directory seems to be a problem. My webserver's
> > document root is /Library/Webserver/Documents (that is MacOS X Standard),
> > and I have created and configured /CustomerFiles to be the files and groups
> > directory (which is clearly outside of document root).
> >
> > phpgroupware keeps erroring "Path to files and groups directories must be
> > outside of webserver document root" - I do not find out why. I have tried
> > configuring the phpgroupware URL relative (/phpgroupware) and absolute
> > (http://server.domain.tld/phpgroupware), that did not make any difference.
> >
> > Any hint or help is appreciated.
>
> This has been a problem on OSX for some time. Unfortunately I don't
> have access to an OSX box.
>
> How urgent is this? I will be in your timezone next week, with some
> spare time in the evenings I hope. If you can give me access, I would
> love the opportunity to debug it. In the mean time, there is a hack
> around for it (not this is a potential security issue and not at all
> supported by the project </disclaimer>)
>
> In the following files
> setup/config.php line 38
> phpgwapi/inc/class.vfs_sql.inc.php line 86
> infolog/inc/class.vfs.inc.php line 156
>
> change
> <code>
> function in_docroot($path)
> {
> $docroots = array(PHPGW_SERVER_ROOT,$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
> </code>
>
> to
>
> <code>
> function in_docroot($path)
> {
> return false;
> $docroots = array(PHPGW_SERVER_ROOT,$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
> </code>
>
I knew this sounded familiar, $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] is blank. the
code below what you pasted just need to check for and allow this.