[pmwiki-users] Turn Off Safe Mode

[Ian Barton]

It's possible that Plesk is enabling safe mode on a per virtual host 
basis. You might possibly be able to turn it off with an .htaccess 
directive.

I think that the magic directive is (you may need t check the apache docs):

php_value safe_mode "1"

Ian.

> It  sure looks like the web server is running as "apache" ; .flock
> .htaccess. .lastmod .pageindex
> are all owned by apache. httpd.conf show it running as apache
> (but there other httpd.includes  that cat together
> for conf httpd start up, it's complicated....)
> 
> but if I  chown -R apache wiki.d  then PMwiki is not happy at all.
> the skin loads (from the core farm/pub)
> but it cannot load the home page for the field.. says "cannot acquire
> lockfile"...
> 
> Note: these are virtual domains set up by control panel PLESK. in this
> case PLESK
> is setting the virtual domain own for this site as "wikihinduorg"
> 
> it lives  here along side the core PMwiki installation
> 
> /var/www/vhosts/wiki.hindu.org/httpdocs/pmwiki/*stand installation files
> /var/www/vhosts/wiki.hindu.org/httpdocs/seva/wiki.d  (it is a field)
> 
> in pmwiki.php I looked for "mkdir" and see this
> 
>   $safemode = ini_get('safe_mode');
>    if (!$safemode) $msg .= "<br /><br />Or, for a slightly more
>      secure installation, try executing <pre>    chmod 2777
> $parent</pre> [snip-etc.]
> 
> I'm not getting that message... does this mean PHP is still running in
> safe mode
> and that perhaps in fact, despite my setting  it off in /etc/php.ini
> and restarting
> the server, that it is still on?
> 
> I'll escalate this up to the support team at the data center...though they
> may deem it a "pay for support, customization" request to sort it out.
> I'm over  my head here...
> 
> PMwiki.php itself is owned by wikihinduorg
>