New server permissions problem

Regular Joined: Jan 14, 2005 Posts: 93

Apologies if this is the wrong forum for this…

I’ve recently purchased a virtual server hosting account as my site has outgrown traditional shared hosting.

I was able to get phpMyAdmin installed. I’ve also backed up the MySQL database on my old shared host, FTPed it to my virtual server and imported the tables and data via MySQL in an SSH session.

I then untared all my sites files within the document root.

Almost there, but not quite…

When I attempt to view my site in a browser, I get this…

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Warning: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 32454 is not allowed to access ./config.php owned by uid 10001 in /home/httpd/vhosts/DOMAIN.com/httpdocs/mainfile.php on line 109





Fatal error: Failed opening required 'config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /home/httpd/vhosts/DOMAIN.com/httpdocs/mainfile.php on line 109

Might I have something misnamed? My old host appended the user name to the front of every MySQL database created. Thus my Nuke database was called USERNAME_nuke

On my virtual server, I created a database with the same name – USERNAME_nuke I created the same DB user as I had on my old host with the same password. Alas it is not working.

Do I have the naming convention right, or is there something else? I ran a SQL Dump on a database called TEST and that’s the same name it had in the dump results, so I’m guessing the naming is right.

I’m lost here and any ideas and help are greatly appreciated.[/code]

Sells PC To Pay For Divorce Joined: Posts: 5661

The PHP safe mode is an attempt to solve the shared-server security problem. It is architecturally incorrect to try to solve this problem at the PHP level, but since the alternatives at the web server and OS levels aren't very realistic, many people, especially ISP's, use safe mode for now.
says php....

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:18 am

Yes, I've seen that, but what does it tell me to solve the problem?

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:30 am

well its weird cause even my site runs on safe-mode...
arte you sure you have it all normal set?
no weird paths somewhere?
And if you can contact your host ask them to turn off safe-mode for a minute so you can check if it makes a difference..

Or you can provide some login stuff so i can have a look....

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

I assume you have root privledges? If so, run a "chown userid:groupid on all files/folders in your public_html folder, where userid and groupid are your username nad/or userid. For instance, if your hosting account is username ghostgeek, then ssh to your public_html folder and run this command:

chown -R ghostgeek:ghostgeek *

If that doesn't help, then your ISP has set the paths up incorrectly in php.ini

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 1:52 pm

You rock Raven! That worked (had to play with it a bit, but I got it to work.

/me does happy dance!

Thanks again for all your help!