[BlueOnyx:03231] Re: php error

[Darrell D. Mobley]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it]
> On Behalf Of Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc
> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 11:48 AM
> To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:03228] Re: php error
>
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it
> >> > [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it]
> >> > On Behalf Of Darrell D. Mobley
> >> > Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 4:48 PM
> >> > To: 'BlueOnyx General Mailing List'
> >> > Subject: [BlueOnyx:03141] Re: php error
> >> >
> >> > What about my other question:
> >> > > Another issue:
> >> > >
> >> > > I have a website (site4) that I am trying to get SafeMode to work
> >> > > with. When I have SafeMode enabled, either with or without 
> >> > > SafeModeGID, it cannot use the PHP functions:
> >> > >
> >> > > imagecreatefromjpeg, imagecreatefrompng, imagecreatefromgif
> >> > >
> >> > > I include the site's absolute path in the SafeMode include
> >> > > directory, and it has zero effect.
> >> > >
> >> > > How do I do this in BX?
> >> >
> >> > The files created by these image creation routines are owned by
> >> > apache in group site4. Can apache not produce images in a 755 
> >> > permissioned directory it owns? Is there a SafeMode restriction in 
> >> > place (when it is enabled)that doesn't allow apache to create files 
> >> > in directories it owns? I tried SafeModGID on and off, and putting 
> >> > the following directory paths in both the SafeMode include and 
> >> > SafeMode exec spots:
> >> >
> >> > /home/.sites/70/site4
> >> > /home/.sites/70/site4/
> >> > /home/.sites/70/site4/web
> >> > /home/.sites/70/site4/web/
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > We know site4 owns all of those.  I even changed the ownership of the
> >> > /home/.sites/70/site4/web/images directory to apache:site4 and
> >> > changed permissions on that one directory to 777.  No joy.
> 
> Darrell
> 
> You seem to be purposely making things hard on yourself with your cross-
> site setup. It seems to me you are adding safe mode for security, then you

> are nullifying the added security. Just put on the files on the same site 
> or turn safe mode off.
> 
> Or, ask the question from a php specific list.

Ken,

I edited out the content above so you could re-read my question and
understand it better.

I have a site (not multiple sites, in this situation, just one) that runs
Joomla.  A helper script that Joomla executes resizes article images and
puts them into a separate directory for viewing by the site's users.  On
Blue Quartz, the Joomla script operated under apache.siteX ownership.  Under
Blue Onyx, the Joomla script runs as apache.apache.  

If I turn on SafeMode or SafeModeGid, the script will not produce resized
images, instead it produces an error about SafeMode.

What I am asking is whether or not I can get this site to be able to enable
SafeMode, or whether or not it is outside of the scope of Blue Onyx for
Apache to co-exist unless SafeMode is disabled.

If this question is too much for this list, just say so and I will stop
asking questions here.  When I ask this question on a PHP list, I am asked
what OS and I running and then they tell me to go to the Blue Onyx list to
ask questions such as this.  Typical.