[Sysadmin] PHP Configuration

Dean Mah dmah at members.evolt.org
Thu Jan 9 07:42:56 CST 2003


On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:25:23AM +0000, Garrett Coakley wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 23:36:05 -0700 Dean Mah wrote:
>
> > I got the following message below through the m.e.o contact form.  I'm
> > guessing that this is because PHP is running in safe mode.  I've taken
> > a quick look in the PHP manual and it looks like I can specify an
> > include path in safe mode.  Are there any security risks doing this
> > for /usr/local/lib/php?
>
>
> Not particularly. /usr/local/lib/php only contains the PEAR distribution
> anyways. The only problem we may have is that the PEAR archive is pretty
> old (they just released ver1 stable a while back), so it may not always
> do what members expect it to do.

Okay, thanks.  I've just told him to install it locally in his
directory.

Dean




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