I made an auto file indexer in PHP. I have to put the "index.php" file (my file indexer) in each of the folders so I can see the files in the current folder, which is cool.
Sadly, im able to see the file "index.php" in the list, a thing that I dont want to see.
I used the following to exclude the "index.php" file from the array of shown files:
$files = array_diff($files, ["index.php", "RESSOURCES"]);
(whoops, I lied. It also excludes the "RESSOURCES" folder.)
Sadly, the fact that I have to put the "index.php" in all of the folders is quite limiting. Its becoming a real problem since I have about a hundred folders and subfolders on there...
So my question is:
What can I put inside my .htaccess file so it solves my problem (im using apache 2.4)
I already tried putting:
ErrorDocument 404 /Home/index.php
But it always shows the files located at /Home/ instead of the files located where the error occured.
Any tips?
Cheers.
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My directory listing is: Users>Images>PreDefines
Where i am creating a php file i.e. index.php in PreDefines Folder. I want to include a php file from Users Folder i.e include('header.php');.
But There is a problem. header.php file contain include('title.php'); which not coming in PreDefines>index.php what should i do to include a file from another directory which includes others php files also.
you can simply navigate with ../ which means go backward one step and then go wherever you want
Assuming you are in Users/Images/Predefines/index.php and you want to include a file in Users you say include('../../header.php');
Or for example you have another folder in users called assets which has a file index.php.
You do: include('../../assets/index.php);
Always include in absolute to the directory you are working on.
Something that might help php has getcwd() which returns the current working directory.
Also if you are going to change the server such as from windows to linux or other type of servers instead of / use the DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR constant which will place a separator according to your server for example
include('..'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'title.php')
Hope i understood your question
You see how facebook works, like if my profile is
www.facebook.com/myusername
then there is a specific index.php file and other lots of files that open when I open facebook.com/myusername.
Now I believe it is highly unlikely that Facebook copied the same files into each and every user's username directory.
How else would it work?
I'll be having many different users using the same application, i.e. the same set of files with minor changes in one or two files. Do I necessarily have to copy all the files into all the user directories each time?
I tried putting an index.php file in the subdirectory that contains this code:
<?php
require '../index.php';
?>
Now even though that runs the ../index.php file inside the subdirectory, but when the ../index.php file redirects to say another file named 'otherfile.php', then it gives a 404 not found error, because 'otherfile.php' is not present in the subdirectory, it is present in the parent directory.
How do I solve this problem?
I started a little project a few days ago, a directory viewer. (Not a redesigned htaccess thing.)
It's written in PHP and works great except for a few little things.
I have one file (masterfile) where all parts of the viewer (css, php, ..) come together and build the final viewer. Whenever you access a directory without an index.php, index.html, etc. in it, you should end up in this masterfile and see your directory (-content).
Example: example.com/css/ => You're in css dir => Show custom dir viewer (css folder)
Idea: Disable .htaccess indexing which produces an 403 error, redirect this error to masterfile.
Options -Indexes
ErrorDocument 403 /masterfile.php
This does work, however it lists the content of the masterfile directory and not the content from original folder (example: /css/) Ideas?
Possible solution (I don't like): Put a file, that includes this "masterfile", in EVERY directory and name it index.php
I hope you guys have some ideas, I appreciate any help!
You can put something like this at the top of masterfile.php:
$parsed = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$files = scandir($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].$parsed['path']);
maybe with some adjustment depending of your server configuration. The parse_url stuff is to remove eventual GET and/or segments.
I'm creating a .php file that will be uploaded to the root directory of a server. I need that .php file to then figure out the path to the public_html folder or it's equivalent.
I need to do this because I want my .php file to be able to be uploaded to the root and used on any hosting account. Because many hosting companies use different file paths to the public_html folder or even call it something different, I'm trying to figure out how to detect it.
Preferable there is a server variable or easy test to do this. If not, the public_html folder will always contain a particular file so maybe I could search for this particular file and get the path that way. I'm just worried about a filename search being heavy on memory.
The .php file that is being executed is located inside the ROOT directory and needs to locate the public_html folder.
Like this: /home/user/file.php
needs to detect
/home/user/public_html/ or /home/user/var/www/ or /home/user/website.com/html/ etc.
The challenge with this is that a server can have very many public_html's so outside of the context of a request there is no real way to find out what that is.
One thing that you might be able to do to get this information from a php script (if you know the url to get to the host) is to create a php file called docroot.php that looks like this.
<?php
if ($_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] == '127.0.0.1'){
echo $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"];
}
Then within your file.php your would do something like
$docRoot = trim(file_get_contents("http://www.mydomain.com/docroot.php"));
This makes the assumption that the server can resolve to itself via the local interface by name.
I found this website which provided me with the only good solution I have found after scouring the web...
$root = preg_replace("!${_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']}$!", "", $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']);
The way this works is by getting the full path of the file and then removing the relative path of the file from the full path.
Most of my website is in my root directory. And In that directory there is "css", "functions", "images" folder. Everything works fine when I include php files within index.php or any other root file. It includes it fine and executes it fine.
But problem occurres when I made folder "blog". So this is totally new and separate root folder with CMS and its own "root" files. And I try to include css from main root directory or some php files from "functions" folder in main root directory, Everything breaks down. I know I have to include it as ../functions/myfile.com. But this files includes some other files so it just wont work properly and won't be able to include other files properly.
Is there any idea how to fix this problem?
You can get to the root from within each site using $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']. For testing ONLY you can echo out the path to make sure it's working, if you do it the right way. You NEVER want to show the local server paths for things like includes and requires.
Site 1
echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; //should be '/main_web_folder/';
Includes under site one would be at:
echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/includes/'; // should be '/main_web_folder/includes/';
Site 2
echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; //should be '/main_web_folder/blog/';
The actual code to access includes from site1 inside of site2 you would say:
include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/../includes/file_from_site_1.php');
It will only use the relative path of the file executing the query if you try to access it by excluding the document root and the root slash:
//(not as fool-proof or non-platform specific)
include('../includes/file_from_site_1.php');
Included paths have no place in code on the front end (live) of the site anywhere, and should be secured and used in production environments only.
Additionally for URLs on the site itself you can make them relative to the domain. Browsers will automatically fill in the rest because they know which page they are looking at. So instead of:
<a href='http://www.__domain__name__here__.com/contact/'>Contact</a>
You should use:
<a href='/contact/'>Contact</a>
For good SEO you'll want to make sure that the URLs for the blog do not exist in the other domain, otherwise it may be marked as a duplicate site. With that being said you might also want to add a line to your robots.txt file for ONLY site1:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /blog/
Other possibilities:
Look up your IP address and include this snippet of code:
function is_dev(){
//use the external IP from Google.
//If you're hosting locally it's 127.0.01 unless you've changed it.
$ip_address='xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx';
if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']==$ip_address){
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
if(is_dev()){
echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
}
Remember if your ISP changes your IP, as in you have a DCHP Dynamic IP, you'll need to change the IP in that file to see the results. I would put that file in an include, then require it on pages for debugging.
If you're okay with modern methods like using the browser console log you could do this instead and view it in the browser's debugging interface:
if(is_dev()){
echo "<script>".PHP_EOL;
echo "console.log('".$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."');".PHP_EOL;
echo "</script>".PHP_EOL;
}
If I understand you correctly, You have two folders, one houses your php script that you want to include into a file that is in another folder?
If this is the case, you just have to follow the trail the right way.
Let's assume your folders are set up like this:
root
includes
php_scripts
script.php
blog
content
index.php
If this is the proposed folder structure, and you are trying to include the "Script.php" file into your "index.php" folder, you need to include it this way:
include("../../../includes/php_scripts/script.php");
The way I do it is visual. I put my mouse pointer on the index.php (looking at the file structure), then every time I go UP a folder, I type another "../" Then you have to make sure you go UP the folder structure ABOVE the folders that you want to start going DOWN into. After that, it's just normal folder hierarchy.
i had the same issue and found a code on https://css-tricks.com/php-include-from-root/ that fixed it
<?php
$path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$path .= "/common/header.php";
include_once($path);
?>
None of the above answers fixed this issue for me.
I did it as following (Laravel with Ubuntu server):
<?php
$footerFile = '/var/www/website/main/resources/views/emails/elements/emailfooter.blade.php';
include($footerFile);
?>
Try to never use relative paths. Use a generic include where you assign the DocumentRoot server variable to a global variable, and construct absolute paths from there. Alternatively, for larger projects, consider implementing a PSR-0 SPL autoloader.