RE: Cannot Access Includes Above Current Directory

John:

Thanks for taking the time to respond to my question it's much
appreciated.

I can understand this may be thought of as nothing to do with mod_ssl
(and that's most likely true). I'm not sure what other list might be
more appropriate and was trying to reach knowledgeable folks with both
Apache and SSL experience.

It might help if I explained the reason I tried the mod_ssl list is that
-

- I've created a number of Apache web sites using PHP but this is my
first using SSL(mod_ssl incorporated into Apache 2.0.48, openssl). I've
never encountered anything like this before in web development.

- All scripts work fine with relative paths to include files as long as
they're accessed via http and are not in the
https virtual server directory tree structure.

- When accessing the same scripts within the https virtual server tree
the scripts cannot reference any include files that
aren't at the same level or below in the directory tree.

- If the include file is made available at the same level or below, no
problem accessing via relative or absolute paths.

- Even when the paths to include files are changed to absolute paths
they fail if the file is above the current directory in the tree. For
some reason I can't go up the directory tree from within the https
virtual server directory structure.
This is true no matter where I am in the structure i.e. if I'm two
levels deep in the directory tree I can't reference a file up one level.
If I'm three levels deep I can't reference files back on level two,
bummer!

This seems to be a configuration problem but I've exhausted my resources
trying to figure out what within httpd.conf or ssl.conf would be causing
this behavior.

Seems like such a small thing but with an existing site structure I'd
have to replicate many scripts, css',images etc. to make the components
I need available within the https virtual server's directory structure.
What a maintenance nightmare!

Any suggestions you may offer are appreciated.

Thanks,

........... Steve



-----Original Message-----
From: John.Airey@rnib.org.uk [mailto:John.Airey@rnib.org.uk]=20
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 2:30 AM
To: modssl-users@modssl.org
Subject: RE: Cannot Access Includes Above Current Directory


This isn't really a mod_ssl issue, but I suggest you use the absolute
path for included php as the current directory is probably where the
httpd binary is, or perhaps where the config files are.

(I changed the subject as my last post was rejected, somehow)

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