apache and symlinks

[nephish]

ello there all,

i am hosting three very similar websites and i wanted to share some php scripts between them.
so i put some in /usr/share/php/
and put symlinks to them, but the server will not show the page.

is there something i need to fix or change in the apache http.conf?
and if so, is it a security hazzard to use symlinks ?

thanks

[Icarus]

yes, php will not parse links at all. This is to keep someone from doing 'bad things' to the system. I think there might be a way to enable them in the php.ini but I would highly suggest not to do so

[nephish]

ok, good enough
i will find another way

[teeitup]

Why not try linking the directory instead?

[nephish]

is that the same security risk?
thanks by the way

[Icarus]

Same thing, links are completly ignored by php

[soulestream]

could you use mount --bind and just mount the same folder three times


ie put everything in /whatever/phpscripts

then mount /whatever/phpscripts /websiteone/php, mount /whatever/phpscripts /websitetwo/php, etc


Soule

[bwkaz]

mount --bind is basically "hard links for directories" -- I would think it'd be simpler to hard-link the files. (Though it depends on the number of files, and whether you want new ones to automatically show up in both places, I guess.)

To create a hardlink, instead of "ln -s targetfile sourcelinkname", use just "ln existingfile newfilename".

Note that after you do this, you will have to "rm" all of the filenames that got hardlinked together before the file will be deleted from the disk. (Using ln to create a hardlink basically just creates a new name for the same file blocks. There is no such thing as a "source" and "destination" like there is with symlinks; both filenames are completely equivalent.)

[nephish]

well, it looks like that is working.
i did a mount --bind to the directory holding the files that i wanted to share, and it worked.
now, can i put something in fstab so it will not go away if i reboot?

thanks

[soulestream]

I dont think I could ever get an fstab working. So I just made a script at startup.


Soule

[nephish]

is that the recommended way to go?
where do i put the script ?
thanks