Problems getting Reviewpost to work fully without these UID permission errs

LittleBrother · August 26th, 2004, 05:38 PM

Hi,

I have moved my web to another linux server and the installation seems to go well but theres a permissions problem I cannot figure out. I get these errors at the top of the page when I click ADMIN when I am at the user index. I own the whole server and root access but this should have installed cleanly and no issues. It looks like the script might be trying to size up folders it has no business worrying about but I could be wrong. That part of the script around line 18 or so looks like its trying to feel around folders.

ANy idea how I can fix this ?? I really appreciate it. I have been bangin on this for 8 hours.

Thanks,
Doug

Warning: opendir(): SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 509 is not allowed to access /var/www/html owned by uid 0 in /home/virtual/site4/fst/var/www/html/reviews/adm-main.php on line 18

Warning: opendir(/var/www/html/reviews/data/): failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /home/virtual/site4/fst/var/www/html/reviews/adm-main.php on line 18

Warning: readdir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /home/virtual/site4/fst/var/www/html/reviews/adm-main.php on line 20

Warning: closedir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /home/virtual/site4/fst/var/www/html/reviews/adm-main.php on line 28

Chuck S · August 26th, 2004, 08:06 PM

Looks to me for one you have safe mode on when we list on our installation and prepurchase instructions safe mode needs to be off

Also seems you have the path statement in the config incorrect

You most likely have /var/www/html/reviews

when it should be

/home/virtual/site4/fst/var/www/html/reviews

LittleBrother · August 26th, 2004, 08:22 PM

Thanks Omegatron, I will go try that and look. I could not find reference to that on the installation instructions on the site.
http://www.reviewpost.com/installphp.html

But I will go look again. I appreciate the quick response. I guess my problem may not be UIDs and ownership afterall?

Thanks
Doug

LittleBrother · August 26th, 2004, 08:23 PM

Oops I see where you mean now. I will turn off safe mode and see
http://www.reviewpost.com/requirephp.html

LittleBrother · August 26th, 2004, 08:33 PM

I ran phpinfo and it says I have safe mode on locally but it says master value is off. So I am sorta wondering where I can disable it. I own the whole server and root. I saw php.ini but most of these settings appear disabled in there. From what I can tell. Is there a specific place to change this and can I do it and still be secure?

Any advice?

Thanks
Doug

Chuck S · August 26th, 2004, 09:37 PM

Look in the httpd.conf

LittleBrother · August 26th, 2004, 10:09 PM

I did. In fact I think I found that file in more than one place and I dont even see it in there. I did find at least 4-5 php.ini files down the tree from root and all along the way down to my web. All of them have it set to OFF.

I guess I'll keep swinging. Most posts on the internet and by support give advice but not where to determine the exact file location. Even from the folks that provide my server. So I appreciate it. You can answer that but I will keep trying.

Chuck S · August 26th, 2004, 11:05 PM

well the php.ini for your particular domain is listed right in a phpinfo file you call up

LittleBrother · August 27th, 2004, 02:44 PM

This is what worked......FYI none of the other would.

Here is how to turn off safe_mode in php for 1 domain
vi /etc/httpd/conf/siteXX/safemode
where 'siteXX' is the domain's site number.
"sitelookup -d domain.com" to get site number
in that file type this line:
php_admin_flag safe_mode off
now restart apache
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

Thanks