[skalie]

All I did was run an itsy bitsy teeny weeny php script then wham....

I tested some PEAR stuff on my localhost, when I FTP'd to test it on the server I ran this script...

ini_set("include_path", "/var/www/html/pear/");

It appears that php "/" has taken the script to the root of the server (or someit) and I've now messed up the path to the .htaccess files. well that's what I think after reading the error log....

[error log]
(13)Permission denied: /home/virtual/site120/fst/var/www/html/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable
[/error log]

I'm getting 403 forbidden on everything on my site, I'm curious if that is the case for other people who are sharing the hosting, and whether I should be contacting the server admin.

[Simon Mundy]

Originally posted by skalie:
All I did was run an itsy bitsy teeny weeny php script then wham....

I tested some PEAR stuff on my localhost, when I FTP'd to test it on the server I ran this script...

ini_set("include_path", "/var/www/html/pear/");

It appears that php "/" has taken the script to the root of the server (or someit) and I've now messed up the path to the .htaccess files. well that's what I think after reading the error log....

[error log]
(13)Permission denied: /home/virtual/site120/fst/var/www/html/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable
[/error log]

I'm getting 403 forbidden on everything on my site, I'm curious if that is the case for other people who are sharing the hosting, and whether I should be contacting the server admin.

See if adding a few paths fixes the problem -e.g.:

ini_set("include_path",".:/var/www/html/pear:".$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);

This adds 3 paths - one to the same directory as PHP, one to your pear directory, and one to the current path. Does this help?

[skalie]

Originally posted by Simon Mundy:
Does this help?

Tried it, got the "forbidden" page as usual, although not the 403, but the "forbidden page that shows up when there is no index page in the directory.

Probably going to have to contact the host about this one *wince*.

[skalie]

Finally got it sorted, while messing around with the .htaccess I had flushed the correct chmod settings down the toilet, they should be....

755 to all directories(rwxr-xr-x)
644 to all files(rw-r--r--)

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by Simon Mundy:
See if adding a few paths fixes the problem -e.g.:

ini_set("include_path",".:/var/www/html/pear:".$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);

This adds 3 paths - one to the same directory as PHP, one to your pear directory, and one to the current path. Does this help?

I typically try to add paths like this:

[php]
<?php
$dev_include_dir = "/some/path/I/want/";
set_include_path(get_include_path() . ":" . $dev_include_dir);
?>
[/php]

[skalie]

Originally posted by Arkham_c:
I typically try to add paths like this:

[php]
<?php
$dev_include_dir = "/some/path/I/want/";
set_include_path(get_include_path() . ":" . $dev_include_dir);
?>
[/php]

Wow, that works a charm, thanks for taking the time to post that.

*starts to enjoy himself after three days of going WTF ??*