I am using a Quadra Hosting Multi Domain (http://www.quadrahosting.com.au/) to host five different domains. As site owner I have FTP access to the root directory, and to everything underneath it. There is no domain directly attached to the root. Each domain has its own directory tree under the root directory, and I have a separate directory Engine containing the PHP code for all the sites. Each domain directory has a series of data files defining the various pages, optionally some configuration files, and a very short program index.php, which sets up a few user variables, and then passes control to the main program in Engine (by including it). The Engine processes a set of parameters, and from these generates the actual page which is passed to the user. The data files are almost entirely simple text files, and I do not use a database.
The permissions are currently as they were set up by the provider. All directories in the system have permissions drwxr-xr-x, and all other files rw-r--r-- (when I read them as site owner -- I don't know if they are somehow changed when I access the site by downloading a page from one of the domains). I can load and run any of the files in Engine by including them into Index.php, and I can include images anywhere in the domain in the current page. I can also download them directly by quoting their full path. I can also show pages defined by data files in Engine, but I can neither show nor download images in Engine. I haven't tried accessing pages in other domains. As the permissions for group and others are the same for all directories, and all files, I don't understand how I can download images in the current domain, but not in Engine. Is it possible to reset the permissions so that different values are seen from different domains, and how can I tell which group I am actually in when I access a particular domain? Also is it possible to temporarily include a user in group, if they are not already there? Clancy. (The PHP manual has been down all day, and Google is not particularly helpful for this type of thing unless you already know the terminology, so I have largely been floundering in the dark. And when you look up 'user permissions' most books immediately assume database.) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
