Re: [PHP] Re: RE: Cannot access file on Network Drive (Windows 2003)
On 5/24/07, Rahul Sitaram Johari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may have something here. Problem is, I don¹t know how to mess with how under what user Apache is running and no one else here does either so basically I have to figure this one out! I would like to, as you suggested, try and ³get Apache to run as a service under a user that can access the network resource². I definitely agree about using non-mapped addresses and using the actual Server Name addresses. Ok, I don't know a lot of Apache PHP under Windows, but did you try to run the script through the PHP CLI? If you start your script through the CLI it will run as the user you're currently working in, so make sure you're logged in as Administrator, and then try running it through the CLI. If you don't know how to do that, I believe you should open a command line with start-run type cmd (without ) and press enter. Then you should do a few cd commands to go to the actual directory where php.exe is. Then you should type php.exe C:/Full/Path/To/File.php If it runs this way, then you're probably sure it is a permission issue. I would recommend to use the code you posted on May 24, 2007 4:35 PM. Tijnema On 5/24/07 11:24 AM, Jared Farrish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you running Apache under a different (non-privileged) account on the Win2003 machine? If Apache is running as a service with a different username (with no extended access to network resources), you will need to get Apache to run as a service under a user that can access the network resource. And I still think you should use non-mapped addresses instead of mapped addresses, since a mapping is just a localized version of a resource name alias. If, after determing that Apache is running with the right permissions for the owned processes to connect to and use a network shared resource, then it's probably an Apache UID conflict (is PHP in safe mode?). -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: RE: Cannot access file on Network Drive (Windows 2003)
On 5/24/07 11:04 AM, Jared Farrish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'll say you've dramatically upped the ante by having an Apache server on a windows box attempt to mount and read a file on a MacOS machine. Yipes! So let me get this straight: * Apache is on Windows Server 2003. * PHP is running on Apache. * A folder containing scripts/data/both is on a MacOSX machine. * A user from frontierland knocks on PHP's front host.com:80 door and says, Please... * PHP - Apache: Gimme gimme [resource P] * Apache says, Ok, let me get the data from location X. * Apache - location X: Pretty Please, gimme gimme. * location X - Apache: [barf] * Apache - PHP: No luck. Jared, I think you got a little confused with a previous post of mine. Mac OS X is Not in this scenario at all!!! So completely Eradicate it from this current Scenario. This is a complete PHP/Apache on Windows 2003 Scenario. That's it! So what it is supposed to be is: * PHP5 / Apache2.2 on Windows Server 2003 * Folder on another Windows Machine on the Network contains some files (mapped as network drive X:\) * PHP trying to read file on X:\ from Apache on Windows 2003. There's really nothing else to it. Can you, from the Windows 2003 machine, manually access the folder/file that you're asking PHP (through Apache) to access? Unless the service that Apache is running under has permissions to communicate with the share resource (location X), this will always fail. Yes! Without any problems! I can easily navigate to the X: drive on that Windows Machine, and do anything I want with files there. I have all permissions. ~~~ Rahul Sitaram Johari CEO, Twenty Four Seventy Nine Inc. W: http://www.rahulsjohari.com E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ³I morti non sono piu soli ... The dead are no longer lonely² -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: RE: Cannot access file on Network Drive (Windows 2003)
You may have something here. Problem is, I don¹t know how to mess with how under what user Apache is running and no one else here does either so basically I have to figure this one out! I would like to, as you suggested, try and ³get Apache to run as a service under a user that can access the network resource². I definitely agree about using non-mapped addresses and using the actual Server Name addresses. On 5/24/07 11:24 AM, Jared Farrish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you running Apache under a different (non-privileged) account on the Win2003 machine? If Apache is running as a service with a different username (with no extended access to network resources), you will need to get Apache to run as a service under a user that can access the network resource. And I still think you should use non-mapped addresses instead of mapped addresses, since a mapping is just a localized version of a resource name alias. If, after determing that Apache is running with the right permissions for the owned processes to connect to and use a network shared resource, then it's probably an Apache UID conflict (is PHP in safe mode?).
Re: [PHP] Re: RE: Cannot access file on Network Drive (Windows 2003)
On 5/24/07, Rahul Sitaram Johari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may have something here. Problem is, I don't know how to mess with how under what user Apache is running – and no one else here does either so basically I have to figure this one out! I would like to, as you suggested, try and get Apache to run as a service under a user that can access the network resource. Well, I have already described how to do this two posting ago (and the advice from another user was to read the Apache documentation...): 1) Go to Win2003 desktop 2) Right-click on bottom, right part of desktop (right on top of the clock). 3) Select 'Task Manager', click Processes Tab, sort Image Name by clicking tab. 4) Find 'apache.exe' or some variation of. 5) Look at the username associated with the process. If this is 'System' or something type of special user (or a basic user without network privileges extended to it), then you will need to modify this by: 1) Locate the My Computer link on your desktop. 2) Right-click on top of the link, select Manage, choose 'Services and Applications', and select Services. 3) Find the apache service, double click to open properties, click on the 'Log On' tab, and see what user it is setup to use. If this is a system account, I would think you would need to change this to a network account, preferably one for which the password will not expire... If apache is not running as a service, then you will need to determine how it is starting up, and modify that to run under a different process with modified user permissions. I definitely agree about using non-mapped addresses and using the actual Server Name addresses. For ease on the eyes, mappings are great, but they are not reliable for programming purposes, IMHO. For the advanced PHP gurus on the list, is it accurate to characterize PHP as relying on Apache for file manipulation? Is it accurately described as: Process Request-PHP-Apache-[File System Poof!]-Apache-PHP-Process ??? Just making sure I have this characterization correct. -- Jared Farrish Intermediate Web Developer Denton, Tx Abraham Maslow: If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. $$
Re: [PHP] Re: RE: Cannot access file on Network Drive (Windows 2003)
On Thu, May 24, 2007 10:29 am, Rahul Sitaram Johari wrote: You may have something here. Problem is, I don¹t know how to mess with how under what user Apache is running and no one else here does either so basically I have to figure this one out! I would like to, as you suggested, try and ³get Apache to run as a service under a user that can access the network resource². http://php.net/phpinfo This should at least tell you what User PHP thinks it is running as. You would change that in httpd.conf User directive on a Un*x box, and that may also work on Windows. There is also that whole Service GUI junk in Windows that may overlay the httpd.conf settings, or not... That's just a question of opening up interminible dialogs and clicking around until it works, like all of Windows. -- Some people have a gift link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: RE: Cannot access file on Network Drive (Windows 2003)
On Thu, May 24, 2007 10:43 am, Jared Farrish wrote: For the advanced PHP gurus on the list, is it accurate to characterize PHP as relying on Apache for file manipulation? Is it accurately described as: Process Request-PHP-Apache-[File System Poof!]-Apache-PHP-Process This *might* be correct with PHP as an Apache Module, but I doubt it. I think it's more like: Whatever - PHP - stdio.h File System calls Whatever will affect what user is running PHP and thus what permissions they have, but that's about it. -- Some people have a gift link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
