Re:Can you use PHP without frameworks nowadays?
by thaumaturgy on Friday February 18, 2011 @10:31AM
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So if I request '/../../../etc/passwd' on one of your sites, it won't work? (Just curious. I've found it really hard to get chroot'd php/apache working in all but the simplest of use cases.)
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Re:Can you use PHP without frameworks nowadays?
by pzb on Friday February 18, 2011 @10:53AM
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You shouldn't need to chroot apache to avoid serving /etc/passwd. I have never worked on a site with chroot'd Apache, and have never run into these kind of issues.
Are you setting your Apache configuration to only allow reading certain directories?
Re:Can you use PHP without frameworks nowadays?
by DCoder on Friday February 18, 2011 @11:39AM
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It's not just Apache you need to configure - PHP ignores Apache's directory access configurations entirely, you need open_basedir and preferably something like suPHP.
Disabling shell functions (system, exec, etc.) is also a good idea, unless the application itself requires them (e.g. if the host is too stupid/lazy to have the imagick extension installed and tells you to call /usr/bin/imagick instead...).