> On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 boulat@funio.com wrote:
>> The reason why I would want to play with settings in php.ini or/and
>> httpd.conf often is because everytime I modify those config files I MUST
>> restart apache in order for changes to take place, meaning I will have
>> DOWNTIME. Now imagine hundreds of new accounts added per day to your
>> hosting machine, that means the webserver will end up getting restarted
>> hundreds of times... Hundreds of seconds per day add up to minutes of
>> downtime... and as we all know downtime is something everyone tries to
>> avoid at all costs.
>
> That's a good point. But this implementation still doesn't seem very
> slick to me. What about something like:
>
> open_basedir = /var/www/{user}/public_html
That's a great way of doin it too, Rasmus.
virtual_root_level might not be very slick, however, it was the
simplest/easier way to solve the problem I was able to up with at the
time.
> Where {user} would map to the owner of the script being executed. Other
> things that might be supported as well: {group}, {regex:a.*$}, {host}
> and probably other things as well. I haven't thought through this very
> much yet, but that seems like a more flexible approach to this problem.
the beauty of open source... ;)
Cheers,
Boulat.
