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Bug #36673 include fails without reason
Submitted: 2006-03-09 18:51 UTC Modified: 2006-03-21 16:08 UTC
From: edoardo at serra dot to dot it Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Filesystem function related
PHP Version: 5.1.2 OS: Linux 2.6 (FC4)
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-03-09 18:51 UTC] edoardo at serra dot to dot it 
Description:
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I have a web application needing write permissions on a directory.

I decided to recursively chown that directory to nobody (the user the webserver is running as) 

As I chown 'chown -R nobody layout/' I get:

Warning: include(layout/theme.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /......./html/header.php on line 35

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'layout/theme.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /......./html/header.php on line 35

line 35 is: include("layout/theme.php");

Needless to say the file is existent

# ll layout/theme.php
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody web 31413 Mar  9 16:03 layout/theme.php

As I chown the dir back to the owner of header.php it start working again...

# chown -R web layout/
# ll layout/theme.php
-rw-r--r--  1 web web 31413 Mar  9 16:03 layout/theme.php

Safe mode is off

Reproduce code:
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Cannot find a few lines of code reproducing the bug, should see the whole application

Expected result:
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I expect to have the page included without problems

Actual result:
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Warning: include(layout/theme.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /......./html/header.php on line 35

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'layout/theme.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /......./html/header.php on line 35

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 [2006-03-09 19:01 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
Does it work if you specify absolute path?
 [2006-03-09 19:16 UTC] edoardo at serra dot to dot it 
Using an absolute path give a more useful error message
that make me notice safe mode is on on that VHOST

Sorry for my mistake, but the "file not found" error message, not indicating a SAFE MODE problem, was confusing for me.

Do you still consider it a bug ?

Output with full path 

Warning: include() [function.include]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 1000 is not allowed to access .....

Warning: include(/.../theme.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: Success in /.../header.php on line 35
 [2006-03-21 16:08 UTC] iliaa@php.net 
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

Safe mode restriction preventing file from being opened.
 
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