** Also affects: mahara/15.10
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: mahara/15.10
Importance: Undecided
Status: Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1465882
Title:
Remove obsolete $_SERVER['MAHARA_LIBDIR'] option
Status in Mahara:
Fix Committed
Status in Mahara 15.10 series:
Fix Released
Bug description:
One of the oldest lines of code in the current Mahara codebase, is an
undocumented feature in init.php. It checks for
$_SERVER['MAHARA_LIBDIR'], and if this is present, it uses this
location for $CFG->libdir instead of the default location
$CFG->docroot/lib.
The $_SERVER superglobal is populated by the SAPI that's running PHP.
If you're using mod_php, you can set it using the Apache directive
"SetEnv MAHARA_LIBDIR /path/to/libdir". If you're executing PHP from
the command-line, you can set it by exporting an environment fariable,
i.e. "MAHARA_LIBDIR=/path/to/libdir; export MAHARA_LIBDIR; php
htdocs/lib/cron.php"
There's really no reason to have this code in place. There is no
supported Mahara hosting use-case where you would need the lib
directory to be in a non-standard location. And as such, all this does
is provide a potential vector for errors and attacks. So, I'm going to
remove it.
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