Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-24 Thread Daniel Brown
On Jan 24, 2008 1:05 PM, Jason Pruim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You just made my life so much earlier! Thank you! Yes, you guessed it. I am your father. -- Daniel P. Brown Senior Unix Geek and #1 Rated "Year's Coolest Guy" By Self Since Nineteen-Seventy-[mumble]. -- PHP General Mail

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-24 Thread Jason Pruim
On Jan 23, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Jan 23, 2008 4:19 PM, Jason Pruim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay, so I have this mostly working now! if I put my ini_set("include_path", "blah/to/balh"); on each and every page. I know I could include a file that is in the document root whic

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-23 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, January 23, 2008 3:19 pm, Jason Pruim wrote: > Okay, so I have this mostly working now! if I put my > ini_set("include_path", "blah/to/balh"); on each and every page. I > know I could include a file that is in the document root which > specified that, but I was wondering if I was missing so

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-23 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, January 23, 2008 1:50 pm, Roberto Mansfield wrote: > Jason Pruim wrote: >> >>> Been doing some reading on security and have decided that I should >>> be >>> storing my include files outside of the document root... Which I >>> understand how to do it, but what I'm wondering, is say I write t

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-23 Thread Daniel Brown
On Jan 23, 2008 4:19 PM, Jason Pruim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, so I have this mostly working now! if I put my > ini_set("include_path", "blah/to/balh"); on each and every page. I > know I could include a file that is in the document root which > specified that, but I was wondering if I was

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-23 Thread Jason Pruim
On Jan 23, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Richard Lynch wrote: On Wed, January 23, 2008 8:37 am, Jason Pruim wrote: On Jan 22, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Jason Pruim wrote: Hi everyone, #1. When including files outside of the webroot do you need to specify the entire path? Like for me, that would be somet

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-23 Thread Daniel Brown
On Jan 23, 2008 3:28 PM, Jason Pruim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't realize that... That's good info. I always hear people > talking about .htaccess files on all the different lists I'm on so I > thought it was an industry standard thing :) > > Now I can shut my brain down because I learned

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-23 Thread Jason Pruim
On Jan 23, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Jan 23, 2008 2:56 PM, Jason Pruim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: that's why I made my decision. Not to say it's the right one, just a step in the right direction. To me it also seems more portable across hosts to have access outside of your webro

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-23 Thread Daniel Brown
On Jan 23, 2008 2:56 PM, Jason Pruim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > that's why I made my decision. Not to say it's the right one, just a > step in the right direction. To me it also seems more portable across > hosts to have access outside of your webroot vs. access to .htaccess It's far more po

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-23 Thread Roberto Mansfield
Daniel Brown wrote: > On Jan 23, 2008 2:50 PM, Roberto Mansfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I tend to keep the directories in the document root, but I deny access >> via an .htaccess file. This keeps the code in a simple directory >> structure. Anyone else doing that? > > My fear on that is

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-23 Thread Daniel Brown
On Jan 23, 2008 2:50 PM, Roberto Mansfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tend to keep the directories in the document root, but I deny access > via an .htaccess file. This keeps the code in a simple directory > structure. Anyone else doing that? My fear on that is if there's changes to the se

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-23 Thread Jason Pruim
On Jan 23, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Roberto Mansfield wrote: Jason Pruim wrote: Been doing some reading on security and have decided that I should be storing my include files outside of the document root... Which I understand how to do it, but what I'm wondering, is say I write the Next Killer Ap

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-23 Thread Roberto Mansfield
Jason Pruim wrote: > >> Been doing some reading on security and have decided that I should be >> storing my include files outside of the document root... Which I >> understand how to do it, but what I'm wondering, is say I write the >> Next Killer App (tm). How would I port that code easily off of

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-23 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, January 23, 2008 8:37 am, Jason Pruim wrote: > > On Jan 22, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Jason Pruim wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> > #1.When including files outside of the webroot do you need to > specify the entire path? Like for me, that would be something like: "/ > volumes/raider/webserver/inclu

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-23 Thread Daniel Brown
On Jan 22, 2008 8:48 PM, Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, January 22, 2008 7:17 pm, Daniel Brown wrote: > > You may disagree with me on this here, Rich, but the way I do it > > is to have a single include_files.php file containing all of the files > > that need to be included

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-23 Thread Zoltán Németh
2008. 01. 23, szerda keltezéssel 09.37-kor Jason Pruim ezt írta: > On Jan 22, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Jason Pruim wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > Been doing some reading on security and have decided that I should > > be storing my include files outside of the document root... Which I > > understan

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-23 Thread Thijs Lensselink
Quoting Jason Pruim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Jan 22, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Jason Pruim wrote: Hi everyone, Been doing some reading on security and have decided that I should be storing my include files outside of the document root... Which I understand how to do it, but what I'm wondering,

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-23 Thread Jason Pruim
On Jan 22, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Jason Pruim wrote: Hi everyone, Been doing some reading on security and have decided that I should be storing my include files outside of the document root... Which I understand how to do it, but what I'm wondering, is say I write the Next Killer App (tm). Ho

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-22 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, January 22, 2008 7:17 pm, Daniel Brown wrote: > On Jan 22, 2008 8:09 PM, Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Nothing peeves me more than some badly-conceived web-app with no way >> to move the include files out of the web-tree. > > You may disagree with me on this here, Rich,

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-22 Thread Daniel Brown
On Jan 22, 2008 8:09 PM, Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nothing peeves me more than some badly-conceived web-app with no way > to move the include files out of the web-tree. You may disagree with me on this here, Rich, but the way I do it is to have a single include_files.php file

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-22 Thread Richard Lynch
On MOST setups, you might have: /yourhomedirectory /httpd_docs_or_something_like_that /index.php /page2.php /includes /globals.inc /connect.inc /sql So, pretty much, you'd do something like: tar -cvf my_site.tar http_docs includes gzip my_site.tar And

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-22 Thread shiplu
On Jan 22, 2008 4:21 PM, Daniel Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 22, 2008 3:57 PM, Jason Pruim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > >Hi, Jason! > > > Been doing some reading on security and have decided that I should be > > storing my include files outside of the document roo

Re: [PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-22 Thread Daniel Brown
On Jan 22, 2008 3:57 PM, Jason Pruim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, Hi, Jason! > Been doing some reading on security and have decided that I should be > storing my include files outside of the document root... Which I > understand how to do it, but what I'm wondering, is say I writ

[PHP] including files outside of document root

2008-01-22 Thread Jason Pruim
Hi everyone, Been doing some reading on security and have decided that I should be storing my include files outside of the document root... Which I understand how to do it, but what I'm wondering, is say I write the Next Killer App (tm). How would I port that code easily off of my server