PHP - Php Above The Root

Hi All,

I googled this and there is endless results.  I went through a lot of them but couldn't get this working properly.

How do I link from within my web site root to files outside the root?  It works for me using relative links  i.e.  ../../phpfiles/includes but that is going to get messy and I can't get a way of doing absolute links to work.  If someone could lay that out so a newbie can get it clearly I would really appreciate it!


Also - I understand why I should put all of my php files outside the web root but is this a guaranteed way to secure these files other than someone hacking my ftp access?


I've looked at a few site hierarchy examples - Am I right that the only pages within the web site root should be template pages with calls to required files (outside the root), session checks, and content includes and all other includes that have php executable code should be outside the root?

I really appreciate the advice and insight.  Thank you!

Hi,
I want to get root path and use on links even if i'm in sub to sub folder etc...
suppose my site name is fitness.com and having two subfolder. so url will become

http://www.fitness.com/dir/dir_sub

here i want to put a link to go to root directory file. there are different ways to do that. e.g:

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<a href='../../filename.php'>go to that page</a>

but i want to use some constant that always shows to root directory. as i defined here

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define("SERVER_NAME" , $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
//and used it like this
<a href='<?php echo SERVER_NAME;  ?>/filename.php'>go to that page</a>

it works when we're on root directory. but when we go to sub directory it added sub directory name with it. which i don't want.

is there any way?

Thanks

hey guys im still having a issue with using the root path when requiring external files. So i can use one path and never have to worry about this issue.

require("/functions/function_battle.php");
the file is located here
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C:\Software\XAMPP\xampp\htdocs\System_Lords\functions\function_battle.php
i dont understand (include_path='.;C:\Software\XAMPP\xampp\php\PEAR')
im suppose to be including the php folder or something?


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Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/functions/function_battle.php'
 (include_path='.;C:\Software\XAMPP\xampp\php\PEAR') in
 C:\Software\XAMPP\xampp\htdocs\System_Lords\include\battle.php on line 2

Because I have include files in a subdirectory called "incl", I cannot rely on using relative paths because that include file is in a header on and the pages are in multiple subdirectories (or in the root).  I need some way to get the location of the root (the one where my index file is located).  I want to use something like this:

$path= $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
include $path."/subdirectory/file.php";

However, when I use $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] I get :
/home/content/j/p/f/name55/html/

which is not where the index file sits.
Any ideas on how to get the directory where my index file sits? (i.e. the index that gets read when you got to www.domain.com)

Hi Guys

I am struggling with a shell_exec command in the long run, but I am trying to work down the root cause.

The error I am getting with shell_exec is a file not found error, so I thought I would start with getting to the right folder.

I have this

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$sym_dir = "/root/";
$cwd = getcwd();
  echo getcwd()."\n";
  chdir ($sym_dir);
  echo getcwd()."\n";

Which in theory should 1st display '/var/www' as it does and then display the contents of root, at least that is my understanding!

However my return is this /var/www /var/www

Why cannot I move outside the web root?

Cheers
Dave

I having been searching through the forum and other websites for information on reading a file (an image file) located above my root directory. I would like to store images outside the root directory and then use PHP to call those images for registered users. Basically I want to create a secure web gallery.

I am using GoDaddy Deluxe shared hosting, and have managed to create a webroot directory and place files above it. I have found several scripts for reading files using the readfile() function, however when I actually implement the script to find the file and read its contents, it does not seem to find the file. I know my directory path is correct, as I can call an echo function inside a test.php file located in the same folder as the images (above my root).

I would love some incite as to where I went wrong, or if there is a specific GoDaddy work around that needs to be implemented.

Also, if I am going about this the wrong way, please let me know if there is a more effective way of going about this!

Thank you so much!

Hi guys,

I am trying to retrieve some information from sessions. I have this in my header.php

   <?php if(isset($_SESSION['username'])){
         
         $username = $_SESSION['username'];
         
         echo $username;
} ?>

Hey y'all.   I'll gladly admit that I'm not a server guy - I have the utmost respect for people comfortable enough with *nix to handle Apache setup and configuration in a production environment. I can noodle about in *nix typically without killing anything vitally important, but trust me when I say no-one wants me to be a server administrator. That having been said, I do have a development server behind my home network firewall running Ubuntu that I use to test and develop the sites that I create on my separate Windows box. So I try to keep up with the way a shared server would be set up in a real-world situation, to a degree. For instance, I haven't bothered setting up the mail server or FTP, but I do create virtual host files for each of my projects.   So, I've got a virtual host set up on the directory /var/www/myAwesomeSite.com/ with the .conf file containing the following configuration:

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	ServerName myAwesomeSite.com
	DocumentRoot /var/www/myAwesomeSite.com/www
	<Directory /var/www/myAwesomeSite.com/www>
		AllowOverride All
	</Directory>
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Now, in my php scripts echoing out $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] gives me 'myAwesomeSite/www' as I would expect. And using $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] in any require() statements actually does include the requested file, so that part seems to be working fine. My question is this: when I use a leading slash ('/'), shouldn't that equate to the document root? I use it at work all the time and it works flawlessly, but on the dev server I have set up here, it's a no-go. Is there another config command that I need to issue to make it work, or am I crazy?   Basically, am I missing a setting somewhere that will make this:

require_once('/path/to/my/include.php');

work like this?

require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/to/my/include.php');

*edit* I just realized that I used the wrong slash in the title of this post, but I don't see a way to change the topic title. crap.
Edited by maxxd, 23 November 2014 - 11:20 AM.

Hey guys.

Basically i have a file containing Database connection information stored at the root of my site

www.worldwidelighthouses.com/Lighthouses-Database-Connection-Information.php

I want to be able to connect to it using pages such as

www.worldwidelighthouses.com/Lighthouses/English-Lighthouses/Beachy-Head-Lighthouse.php
and
www.worldwidelighthouses.com/Lightships/Lightship1.php

Obviously 1 is 1 directory down, one is 2 directories down.
My server doesnt allow for

include 'www.worldwidelighthouses.com/Lighthouses-Database-Connection-Information.php'
So whats the best way to always find this file, no matter what directory i am in?

Finding out how far away i am from the server root and adding ../ to the include for each folder down was my first idea.
Is this best?

Thanks,
Danny.

Hello! I was working on a simple url generator, but than i though to myself, why not put everything in the root. I've heard thats not a good idea, but i'm ot sure why. I can immagine it gets really messy when you have a lot of files, but its also easy, if you ask me.

I was just wondering what your view on this is. What are the pros and what are the cons?

Thanks

I have a number of PHP helper scripts that are stored outside the root directory of my websites. Those scripts may be used by one or more of my websites. Let's say I have two websites

Website A uses PHP 7.0 Website B uses PHP 7.3

Will the helper scripts be potentially executed using different versions of PHP? In other words, if Website B calls a helper script using a require statement, does that helper script execute as PHP 7.3? But if Website A calls the script, it would be executed as PHP 7.0.

Howdy,   So I am creating a website with SQLite and this time I decided to follow the rule of putting the SQLite DB outside of the document root. However, the admin would need to admin, basically, the DB, so I have two choices:   a) Put PhpLiteAdmin (The SQLite DB manager like PHPmyAdmin is for MySQL) in the document root while giving it a path to the actually DB that is outside of the document root;   b) Set a subdomain to a directory outside of the document root of course and put both PhpLiteAdmin and the SQLite DB there and the admin would access it like this - db.Awesome-Website.com;   Which one of those two options are safer?       Thank you very much!

I've been doing a lot of studying of Linux lately. I enabled the root acount to do some work. When done, even if I logout, close the terminal, or reboot, I can still access the root account without supplying the root password. So what am I not understanding or what am I doing wrong? I don't really need to disable the root account, but this is just a learning experience, and I'm not understanding why I still have access. See below:     # I needed to enable root access for something skunkbad:~$ sudo passwd root   # I did what I needed to do skunkbad:~$ sudo -i root@ubuntu-Inspiron-3647:~#   # I logout from root root@ubuntu-Inspiron-3647:~# logout   # I disable the root access per instructions from many internet references skunkbad:~$ sudo passwd -dl root   # Root access is still available, even if I close and reopen the terminal skunkbad:~$ sudo -i   # I logout from root root@ubuntu-Inspiron-3647:~# logout   # Trying to access root via su prompts for password, and old password is wrong skunkbad:~$ su Password: su: Authentication failure

So I just started watching the videos from Stanford, Google, MIT and a few on youtube. One of them contained the code for using tkinter function to create an application window and I tried to put the same type of thing together can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong cause nothing is happeing for me. I am running linux mint:

# - So this is what it feels like
# - To be alive
#!/user/bin/python
import sys

author = "Brian T. Flores"
version = "0.1"
sessionID = 0

#Get Interface

     from Tkinter import *

#initialize interface 

     root = Tk()

#modify root window info
 
     root.title("Unknown Limits - Massive Multiplayer RPG")
     root.geometry("200x100")

#initialize root window

     root.mainloop()



#if session is > 0:

   #Get Player Info

          UserName = "Brian Flores"
          Password = "enterprise"
          rank = 32

   #planetOverview

          planetName = "Earth"
          plasmaOnhand = 1000000000
          titainiumOnhand = 340000
          crystalOnhand = 55000000
          magneticEnergyOnhand = 350000 
         
       
          ecosystem = "No" 

# yes or no depending on wars or natural disasters that could have damaged or destroyed your ecosystem if there is no ecosystem the atmosphere must be cleaned up and another must be transplanted from another world.

          ecosystemDamage = 10000;  
          
#Damage can result from experiments, wars, natural disasters. At 10,000 damage the ecosystem goes extinct. You can repair this damage my researching technologies and building machines to do such repair 
  
 #         else:
            
           #   print "You are not logged in!";

   
        # raw_input()

Well for some reason it's not working. All I am doing here is setting some vars and using the root.tk function.

If anyone has any Ideas or tips to get this basic script working let me know.   Thank you, DaRedHead
Edited by DaRedHead, 21 November 2014 - 09:17 PM.

Hi guys,

I am searching for the definitive way of obtaining the root directory of my app. I need to it to work on localhost and also on ALL platforms, NIX, Windows etc. I would like to do this as I wish to use it to locate all my sub directory files - includes, model etc.

For example, I may have this as my landing page:

http://www.mywebsite.com/index.php

The root directory might be:

html

The index.php might reside he

html/index.php

... but my includes files might be he

html/lib/includes

So I would be looking to obtain the root in an absolute kind of way to allow me to string together the includes sub directory in a relative kind of way.

In summary then:

1. How to obtain the root with 100% percent success, all of the time on all platforms.
2. How to string the sub directory together with 100% percent success, all of the time on all platforms.
3. Any comments on this as an approach, also welcome.

Many thanks in advance,

S