I'm in the process of getting a Laravel 5 app working on Azure Web Apps and am encountering an issue via Laravel's temporary storage.
Any time a template renders, Laravel attempts to cache it to the local filesystem. Unfortunately, for some reason Laravel doesn't have permission to write to its storage directory.
I am deploying my application from my build server via FTP
I am running on the free-tier shared infrastructure (just while I'm getting set up)
My deployment server is running Linux
In this circumstance, it's obvious what the problem is. Unfortunately, what I don't understand is why my web server doesn't have access to write to the directories my FTP user uploads.
Ideally any solution offered will be one that I can automate as part of my deploy process.
According to http://clivern.com/working-with-laravel-caching/, you can change the directory of the cache files using the cache.php configuration file. I'd like to suggest you to use $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] to obtain the root folder of your web app, and then construct a path for the cache files.
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I wanted to ask you to help me (with some tutorial link or something), what i want to do is to upload php Codeigniter application on azure?
Also in my application, I got upload feature so I should make it work too (don't know if it's more complex becasue of that).
I was using wamp during developing, now I need to push it on server.
Generally, deploy a CI application to Azure Web Apps is simple, you can simply create an Azure Web Apps on Azure portal, then step in the manage page of your Azure Web Apps, click All settings=>deployment source=>chose source=>Local Git Repository to set the git deployment setting of your Azure Web Apps service.
Then you can find the Git clone url under the essential tab.
Additionally, Azure App Service can run php composer.phar install when you run git push, but it's not enabled by default. To enable it, you need to install the Composer extension for your web app.
Here is a CI template on Azure sample, you can refer to https://github.com/Azure-Samples/app-service-web-php-get-started for any hits.
And here is a video https://youtu.be/bBb_Hi2Odqc, you can refer to. It manages on the classic portal, but still works today.
Deploying Codeigniter is very easy, all you need to make sure is placing the project directory correctly.
Just upload the project folder to the hosting either by SSH or FTP.
Modify the .htaccess file accordingly.
Once all the above is set up, including uploading all the files to host, don't forget to update config.php database.php and route.php with new hosting parameters.
To make your upload feature work correctly you just need to give proper/required write access to the upload folder of the application.
And that's all you need to do while deploying Codeigniter application.
We need to execute an .exe file in a remote Windows Azure Server.
We call it from PHP with shell_exec. The .exe should create new files in two different folders into the server and generate data entries in a data base and returns a string, but it doesn’t work.
We don’t have any problem executing it in our local server with windows 7 Enterprise and IIS 7. That’s why we thought it could be a permissions problem, and then we have created a .user.ini file with the following content:
safe_mode= off
safe_mode_exec_dir= off
Unfortunately it doesn’t work too.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
You are most probably working with Windows Azure Web Sites. This is a high-density shared hosting with tightened security. If you need things like shell_exec you shall move to Windows Azure Cloud Service (Web Role), where you have full control over the OS and web server / php settings.
Using Cloud Service you will be able to use shell_exec. However when you move to Cloud Service you have begin thinking of saving files in Azure Blob Storage, as the local storage for cloud service is:
Not persistent
not synchronized across role instances
If you want don't yet know what Role and Role Instance is, or are little confused, please go through this article.
I have developed a python desktop application and application itself having setup page to change some configurations in the application and it is saved as a configuration file.
Now I need do to give web interface to change those configurations by using web browser remotely. But I need to change the same configuration file.
I can’t access any file outside the web root, So My first question is how can I edit that file which is located outside the web root.
more info : for web application I use LAMP stack and desktop application is python based.
someone suggest me to use CGI, Second question : Is that possible, if it is possible how I can I do it?
Probably by bind mounts (assuming Linux), so that the file is in it's original location as well as in the web root.
Or by priviledge separation. The web root sends a query to some worker job, that has access to all the needed files.
I wish to use a PHP Framework such as Yii, however, it seems to set this up I need access to a terminal or console. Unfortunately my only access to the server is via an FTP client as it's shared hosting.
Does this rule Yii out as a framework?
all you need to do is
1 - have a copy of yii framework folder
2 - generate a new yiic webapp folder
3 - upload both folders, the framework folder can go to some hidden place yoursite.com/wawa/framework/yii, and you can just upload the files in your webapp folder to yoursite.com/
4 - edit the index.php in your generated web app, so it know where your framework/yii folder is. than you are set
5 - just make different copy of your webapp folder, so you don't need to generate them if you dont want to. just use different names, wont make a difference, as long as the webapp index.php knows where your framework folder is, than it will work
According to this post you can generated all files on your computer and then just upload the files to your shared hosting.
You only need a terminal for developing on your local server (it isn't a good idea to develop directly on a shared server). To use it on a shared server just upload it.
In the strict sense you don't need a terminal. You could write your files yourself. The yiic program only creates a couple of php files.
I am first in Yii. Installed the application locally. FTP-ing the application to the share server in directory /home/sloki/user/h11741/sites/example.com/www then create abcd directory within /www and put framework into it.
Edit your index.php line 4 to be: $yii=dirname(FILE).'/abcd/framework/yii.php';
You will get error message like this
Application runtime path "/home/sloki/user/h11741/sites/example.com/www/protected/runtime" is not valid. Please make sure it is a directory writable by the Web server process.
Change permission of directories /protected/runtime and /assets to 777. Test the web, when success change again permission both directories to 775.
Gut lak.
i am using Symfony 1.4, to create my project. i have tried to deploy project using the command and methods given in chapter-16 in symfony book. but i am not able to deploy my symfony project from my local computer to web server. Can i directly copy paste my symfony project to my web server?? will that work?? or is there any other method??
NOTE: i am using Propel as ORM.
Your best option is:
1. gzip up the entire project
2. export all the data from the database using something like mysqldump
3. upload the files to the server
4. import the database dump into your server database
5. unzip your project
A couple notes:
1. Due to the shared hosting environment, you may have security issues due to other hosts on the server gaining access to your php files See here.
2. Hopefully your host allows SSH access to your server account, administering a symfony project is MUCH easier when this is the case.
3. If you don't have SSH access to your account you will have to upload the files to the server without gzipping them and this takes a LONG time due to the number of files symfony creates.
4. If possible place all your symfony files except for the web folder outside the public_html folder.
When I have to deploy something I do this:
Check if the requirement (php5, mysql4 etc) on the production server matches my application.
Change the configuration files to reflect the production server.
Upload everything to the server using ftp.
Your question is cryptic, you should really specify what kind of error you are getting.