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Bug 1812 - open_basedir restriction with 1.4
open_basedir restriction with 1.4
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Installer (Other open bugs)
unspecified
PC Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
: ---
Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: patch, patch-need-review
Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2005-04-04 12:49 UTC by ccf.herzog
Modified: 2010-05-15 14:35 UTC (History)
0 users

See Also:
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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


Attachments
fixes the paths that they work with open_basedir (3.91 KB, patch)
2005-07-14 13:33 UTC, gentoo
Details

Description ccf.herzog 2005-04-04 12:49:30 UTC
I got the error quoted below the moment when trying to install mediawiki 1.4 on
a remote linux system I have no root privileges on (webspace provider). However,
installing mediawiki 1.38 worked without any problems. The php version they use
is 1.5.

*Warning*: main() [function.main
<http://www.ottomanbiography.net/wiki_140/config/function.main>]: open_basedir
restriction in effect. File(/convertLinks.inc) is not within the allowed
path(s): (/home/www/web12/) in
*/home/www/web12/html/wiki_140/maintenance/updaters.inc* on line *9*

*Warning*: main(convertLinks.inc) [function.main
<http://www.ottomanbiography.net/wiki_140/config/function.main>]: failed to open
stream: Operation not permitted in
*/home/www/web12/html/wiki_140/maintenance/updaters.inc* on line *9*

*Fatal error*: main() [function.require
<http://www.ottomanbiography.net/wiki_140/config/function.require>]: Failed
opening required 'convertLinks.inc' (include_path='.:') in
*/home/www/web12/html/wiki_140/maintenance/updaters.inc* on line *9*
Comment 1 Brion Vibber 2005-04-04 22:50:48 UTC
If there ever was a PHP 1.5, it would be so old that MediaWiki would definitely not run on it.

If it's trying to open "/convertLinks.inc" then you've got some other problem. Your web provider 
may have a badly broken PHP or a misconfigured PHP which disallows basic necessary file 
operations. Please find out which version and which operations are disabled before continuing.
Comment 2 ccf.herzog 2005-04-06 14:50:45 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> If there ever was a PHP 1.5, it would be so old that MediaWiki would
definitely not run on it.
> 
Sorry for that. It is PHP 5.0.2-1.dotdeb.5. No Safe mode active.
Comment 3 Brion Vibber 2005-04-22 11:31:18 UTC
Removing blocker tag as this seems a rare condition.

Can you test the 1.4.2 release and see if this still happens? The include_path
usage in the installer has been changed a bit.
Comment 4 ccf.herzog 2005-04-24 20:45:14 UTC
Unfortunately I have no longer access to the environment in question because my
stuff was moved to another server with PHP 4.3 on it. There everything just
works fine. Was perhaps really a php configuration problem. Sorry for the
inconvenience. Should resolution set to IINVALID or WORKSFORME?
Comment 5 gentoo 2005-07-14 13:33:58 UTC
Created attachment 711 [details]
fixes the paths that they work with open_basedir

php_admin_flag engine on
php_admin_value safe_mode On
php_admin_value open_basedir /PATHTOWIKI/
php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /PATHTOUPLAODDIR
php_admin_value session_save_path /PATHTOSESSIONSAVEDIR
Comment 6 Antoine "hashar" Musso (WMF) 2005-08-25 01:12:13 UTC
Issue does not happen with HEAD (1.6a)

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