[BlueOnyx:03236] Re: php error

[Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darrell D. Mobley" <dmobley at uhostme.com>
To: "'BlueOnyx General Mailing List'" <blueonyx at blueonyx.it>
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 10:30 AM
Subject: [BlueOnyx:03231] Re: php error


>> -----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.
>
>

Darrell

The Joomla ssite recommends against safe mode:
http://docs.joomla.org/Why_shouldn't_you_use_PHP_safe_mode%3F

I'd say turn it off and then just constrain them to the directories you want 
with openbasedir restrictions.


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Ken Marcus
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Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
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