Forums setup with config.php out of accessible path

Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 3:32 pm

Okay folks...Here's a new one.

Normally when I install PHP-Nuke, I put the config.php file outside of the normally accessible path of users (below my public_html directory) where nobody can get to it.

Then in where config.php normally goes, I put a file in that says:

Code:

<?php 


include("../config.php"); 


?>

This works fine for PHP-Nuke installation for all version through 7.6.

Today, I did this same normal process and installation of 7.6 went fine; however, when I went to setup my forums through that admin screen (which takes you to: http://YOURDOMAIN.COM/modules/Forums/admin/index.php) I got the following errors:

Quote:

Warning: main(): Unable to access ../config.php in /home/xxx/public_html/config.php on line 2

Warning: main(../config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/xxx/public_html/config.php on line 2

Warning: main(): Unable to access ../config.php in /home/xxx/public_html/config.php on line 2

Warning: main(../config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/xxx/public_html/config.php on line 2

Warning: main(): Failed opening '../config.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/xxx/public_html/config.php on line 2

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: sql_db in /home/xxx/public_html/db/db.php on line 86

So... being smart enough to know that FB doesn't test his own software, I went ahead and put the config.php file back into the root of the domain and sure enough, everything works fine.

So..... Does anyone know where these properties are being defined so that I can fix them? I'm assuming that:

a) It doesn't like the include function from the config.php
b) It doesn't like the config.php values being out of bounds of the domain.
c) FB edited it, just enough of course to force it not to work
d) You are no longer able to use the config.php out of bounds of the browsable domain.
e) Some other reason that I haven't thought of... probably a combination of C and E.

Smile

Anyway.. if anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears.

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 9:05 pm

Not sure why you want to move config.php anywhere since it's not readable but anyway the Forum's config file no longer tries to load Nuke's config.php file, instead it calls for mainfile.php, i can't recall any other of it's files linking to Nuke's config file.

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 9:40 pm

Then it must strictly be doing it via the admin functions, as I can't access Forum admin functions withou it there.

Sad

registered · Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 5:05 am

64bitguy wrote:

...if anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears.

Near the top of 'mainfile.php'...

Change:

Code:

<snip>





($forum_admin == 1) {


require_once("../../../config.php");





<snip>

To:

Code:

<snip>





if ($forum_admin == 1) {


    require_once("../../../../config.php");





<snip>

That's how I made it work with 6.5 Wink

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 5:20 am

chatserv wrote:

Not sure why you want to move config.php anywhere since it's not readable...

The only reason I moved it, CS, is because I saw PHP crash on a certain web site once (ahem), during a botched upgrade, and all the files were laid wide open, for the whole world to see, complete with syntax highlighting.

LoL! My jaw hit the floor when I saw that. It made quite an impression! Smile