I can't be the only one thinking this while reading this thread - but
it sounds like the server operator is excessively paranoid, keeping
the system locked down far beyond what it needs to be. I'd suggest
finding an alternate place to host your sites, it just sounds like
this is going to cause nightmares in future.
On Jun 19, 12:00 pm, acoustic_overdrive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Well I asked and no symlinks allowed unfortunately. He says symlinks
> can be used to gain access to the root of the machine.
>
> On Jun 19, 11:02 am, acoustic_overdrive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Marcin,
>
> > Sorry I'm not that up to speed with linux filesystems but I'll have a
> > go at explaining...
>
> > The files are stored on an NFS server which has two mountpoints on the
> > webserver, one of which is writable (where my tmp stuff is) and the
> > other is read-only (where the rest of my application code and webroot
> > is). I'm not allowed any more mountpoints and so I need the shared
> > writable folder to be outside this cake application as it is going to
> > be shared by several cake applications, not just one. Otherwise I
> > would have asked him to mount it as app/tmp inside my app and keep the
> > file structure as intended.
>
> > so my structure on the NFS server is:
>
> > docroot/app1
> > docroot/app2
> > docroot/app3
> > sharedtmp/app1
> > sharedtmp/app2
> > sharedtmp/app3
>
> > and on the webserver it looks like this:
>
> > docroot/app1
> > docroot/app2
> > docroot/app3
> > docroot/sharedtmp/app1
> > docroot/sharedtmp/app2
> > docroot/sharedtmp/app3
>
> > I think the whole point in this exercise is so he can separate
> > readable and writable folders without having to add more mountpoints
> > in future.
>
> > He also disabled symlinks for security reasons so I can't use
> > mod_rewrite either :-(
>
> > But what you're suggesting could be interesting actually. Can I create
> > three symbolic links from the sharedtmp to put my tmp folders back
> > where they should be inside each app?
>
> > On Jun 19, 10:33 am, "Marcin Domanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > can't you just symlink the directories ?
>
> > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:02 AM, acoustic_overdrive
>
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi Dave,
>
> > > > Thanks for the tip - I didn't realise that. I will give that a try. If
> > > > I set that do you think the TMP constant is ignored? or is it still
> > > > used for logs?
>
> > > > Jamie
>
> > > > On Jun 17, 9:05 pm, DaveMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >> Actually, there's an even easier way - and the official one to boot!
>
> > > >> Edit the cache command at app/core/config.php to look like
>
> > > >> Cache::config('default', array('engine' => 'File', 'path' => '/custom/
> > > >> tmp/path'));
>
> > > >> Full notes for this command are in config.php.
>
> > > >> On Jun 16, 1:03 pm,acoustic_overdrive<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >> wrote:
>
> > > >> > Hi Dave thanks for checking.
>
> > > >> > I'm not using mod_rewrite, and I've just realised this means that it
> > > >> > will actually get its folder structure set up by the index.php in the
> > > >> > root of the installation, not the bootstrap or index.php in webroot.
>
> > > >> > Which also means I think I've solved my problem because definingTMP
> > > >> > in that index.php file seems to work fine.
>
> > > --
> > > Marcin Domanskihttp://kabturek.info
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