Suzanne — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 00:31:04 +0000

no no -- read the comments on the thread I linked. Show that to your college.

Also, the shebang has to be the first line.

i.e.

<?php
#! usr/bin/local/php

// your code goes here
?>

m3rajk — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 20:19:29 +0000

use perl to fix the php. simple have it recursively go through your directory, open all .php files, and then read in "<?php"
insert that on the next line
then read the rest of the file, and save that.

with my base knowledge of perl i should be able to write that in about 30 min.. hmmm...i dont have anything here, but the only thing that would be any chance of challenging me because i dont already have the base for something else i wrote would be the recursive open.

do you know perl? i dont feel like writng the script, but if you know it i'll help you if you'd like

College Server

jjinno — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 19:33:41 +0000

FYI - I am trying to install and run a TYPO3 package, but my school is kinda screwy in how they deal with the PHP / Apache thing.

It all happened a few years ago, when a student user programmed himself some holes (not on purpose) that were attacked (quite on purpose) and instead of fixing the security issues of how they used to do it (IE - The server ran as a user called "nobody" and all PHP permissioning was done through that user, so that they could block/allow/deny any PHP privelidges to the entirety of the system rather than allow each individual user to be "underlings" under the rule of the SysAdmin) they simply changed the whole system so that each user is "captain of his own ship" as it were.

Anywho, thats how it was explained to me, and it just makes me have to put that stupid include in every core PHP file.

- Jeremiah

andy206uk — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 18:26:27 +0000

I thought you only needed to do that for perl scripts?

Suzanne — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 17:51:50 +0000

A little Googling turns up that you need it if php is installed as cgi without the php module on Apache. Is that what's happening?

http://ca2.php.net/security.cgi-bin

There are better options.

Suzanne — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 17:43:43 +0000

why do you need a shebang on a php file?!