So I have made several different file access permissions for our company's site. Which are dev,core and essential.
To fine manage them, we set up repositories for each level of access permissions (files do not duplicate).
And I have the files in /var/repo/dev, /var/repo/core, /var/repo/essential.files are symlinked to /var/www/exmaple.com/
The framework we are using is Laravel, and it has some bootstrap stuff. The first is to require the autoload.php
The problem is the index.php is located in /var/www/example.com/public_html/, when it requires the autoload.php. It traces back to /var/repo/essential folder, which wont help it to find autoload.php.
I'm just wondering if there is a way to make it not following the symlinks (back to /var/repo/.....). while to the actual folder it's in?
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I have multiple restful apis build using yii2 framework, What i wouldlike is to use a single vendor directory stored in a different address
That is
I have an application hosted at www.example1.com and another one hosted at www.example2.com and the one i would like to contain the vendor files to be at www.example3.com so that in both example1 and example2 i only have to upload the resful folder without vendor directories
After some looking into yii2 advanced folder i have found these lines in index.php
require(__DIR__ . '/_protected/vendor/autoload.php');
require(__DIR__ . '/_protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/Yii.php');
Ive tried as a work around by doing
require(__DIR__ . 'http:://example1.com/pathto/_protected/vendor/autoload.php');
But the above fails, How best can i achieve this
You can't do it via HTTP.
The only solution is to create shared, NFS volume, which will be mounted on both servers as your vendor/ directory. After you will be able to use the same vendor dir for two servers.
If those two sites are deployed to the same server, it might be easier.
It is very simple .
you can just copy the vendor file into your next project and change the two lines of required file path (autoload.php & yii.php) to the correct vendor location.
the /config/web.php. add vendorPath to the config with your vendor directory.
As the vendor is moved from /var/www/html/myapp/vendor to /var/www/html/frameworks/yii2, you will find problem installing a new extension or updating the existing through composer command. To fix it, modify your composer.json (right under your project directory) by adding the vendor-dir attribute under the config section, eg:
// other settings ...
"config": {
"vendor-dir":"your path",
"process-timeout": 1800
},
// other settings ...
Also, you may find "a man-in-the-middle attack" message when either update or install the new extension (i don't know if there is a relation to the modification of composer.json but i get it several times during experiments). To fix it run composer update --dry-run. then it would ok.
This can be done: Include through http.
You need to set some php variables (allow_url_include, allow_url_fopen). And you need to get rid of __DIR__ constant in front of your php file path:
require('http://example1.com/pathto/_protected/vendor/autoload.php');
BUT
Don't do this. Really. You don't want to go through all these unsafe php setups. And you don't want to expose your vendor files to all the people in the world. If your script can access php source code via http, everyone can. Also, includes over http will be extremely slow.
The (probably) only solution
If you really want to share core php files between multiple websites, you can purchase virtual server, set up both websites on it and create one folder accessible from all websites on this server.
You don't even need virtual server, you can go with some kind of multihost service with custom folder for each website and shared folder for core (vendor) files.
I am using Cakephp3 and would like to know if there is a better alternative to relocating the config folder.
The issue rises from the fact that everytime I have to refresh the production app, i copy over the entire app from development to production and reconfigure the required settings in the config folder.
After some iterations of this process, I started to make a backup of the config folder and after copying the app, restore the config folder.
After some time even this started to get tedious, so I ended up hacking the cake files and folders.
I relocated the config folder outside the root directory
Created a symbolic link in the root directory poiting to the config directory outside the root directory.
Updated the ROOT constant in config/paths.php to the real root folder
In webroot/index.php redefined the bootstrap.php require location
So as long as long as I dont update the cakephp core, I can copy over the dev app to the prod app and all the config stays the same.
I would like to know if some one has a simpler approach.
Thanks
After some research and reading carefully the comments in related bootstrap file, I found a solution for, well at least, my problem.
The problem basically was that I had to refresh the database, email, debug settings define in the app.php file, everytime I uploaded the app from my dev server to my prod server.
Reading the comments in the bootstrap file I found the comment which stated:
Load an environment local configuration file.
You can use a file like app_local.php to provide local overrides to your
shared configuration.
So this allows me to redefine the configurations defined in the app.php file. However I wanted this to me more dynamic, so I ended up creating an APP_INSTANCE_NAME constant in the bootstrap.php file of the webroot directory as follows
// /config/bootstrap.php
define('APP_INSTANCE_NAME', strtolower(gethostname()));
and later in the bootstrap file, i did the following:
Configure::load('app_' . APP_INSTANCE_NAME, 'default');
with this change, the configuration that gets loaded is based on the server hostname and I dont have to relocate the config folder. Hope this helps someone with cakephp3
Thanks to jason and greg's comments which motivated me to read the comments more carefully.
first thanks for your brilliant work on Restler, I am using it for some labs at the University and so far it works like a charm, really simple and elegant framework!
I've been using Restler 3.0 RC4 successfully until I updated to RC5 today. Now I'm having problems with the HtmlFormat. Whenever I try to access any of my web services that return HtmlFormat or try to enter the API Explorer, I'm getting a HTTP 500, "Unable to create cache directory /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/concrete/api/cache/php" . Also, I see a "Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: No such file or directory in /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/concrete/Restler/vendor/Luracast/Restler/Format/HtmlFormat.php on line 367" .
Do you have any idea of what could be happening? In the upgrade, I just replaced my Restler framework folder with the RC5 one, without any changes in my API itself.
I would appreciate any help. Thank you!
Most of the template formats need a cache folder to keep their compiled files so that they run efficiently
Since RC5 we create a subfolder for the template type used. Even though php templates does not need compilation Restler attempts creating php folder under the default cache location, which is cache folder located in the same folder as the index.php
In your case it is
/home/xxxxxxx/public_html/concrete/api/cache
You should update the cache folder to keep it outside the web root by adding
Defaults::$cacheDirectory = '/home/xxxxxxx/cache';
And then make sure the cache folder is writable
Then HtmlFormat will create the php/twig/blade folder depending on your template preference and add the compiled files inside
I have a symfony2 project that somehow was running fine while it was outside the public_html directory, but now it's not working (the path is not allowed anymore, apparently).
Now I need to move the symfony2 directory into public_html, but when I do, the website is still not working (the page is blank).
I modified app.php so the include path is the correct one, and I also modified the projectConfiguration class so it has the right WebDir. What am I missing?
alternatively, how can I make it work outside the public_html directory?
for the record, I'm completely new to symfony.
The cache was the culprit.
I cleaned symfony's cache (removed all the contents residing in the cache folder) and the website came back to normal.
thanks to fos.alex for the comment/answer.
On my local setup I have a load of different CakePHP websites. I'm using a Mac so the folder structure is something like ~/Users/cameron/Sites/sample-website and then within each of these websites I will have the typical Cake folder and App folder.
What I would like to do is have just a core cake folder and then have ALL the sites pull from that one cake core so I don't have the same stuff several times over. I have been reading some tutorials on the web: http://rickguyer.com/cakephp-one-core-many-apps/
So I have my cake folder here: ~/Users/cameron/Sites/cake-1.3/ and then my site here: ~/Users/cameron/Sites/sample-site/ and in this folder I have the usual app folder and htaccess to tell it where to find webroot etc.
Now I have edited the index.php file inside webroot like the tutorial BUT have only changed one line because I haven't moved my files OUTSIDE of the App folder like he does. So the only like I have changed is as follows:
if (!defined('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH'))
{
define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', '..'.DS.'..'.DS.'cake-1.3');
}
As far as I can tell that is correctly looking two directories up and finding a folder called cake-1.3 however it just gives a error 500?
Any ideas what the problem is? Thanks
EDIT:
Even doing this doesn't work???
Which If I echo: echo CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH; gives /Users/cameron/Sites/cake-1.3 and if I paste that in the address bar it loads up the cake folder so it's definitely the correct folder structure JUST it doesn't like looking at cake outside of the main url?
if (!defined('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH'))
{
define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', DS.'Users'.DS.'cameron'.DS.'Sites'.DS.'cake-1.3'); echo CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH;
}
You are right on the money with:
define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', DS.'Users'.DS.'cameron'.DS.'Sites'.DS.'cake-1.3');
Just make sure that Users sits in root. In other words, when you go to terminal you can get to this directory by typing: cd /Users/cameron/Sites/cake-1.3
It looks like you may be on a MAC. If so, your linking is correct. Most of the time what I find is you have done a copy paste of the app directory and it does not get the .htaccess files. I would check those first. But here is a comprehensive list of what you should verify:
Make sure the host is pointing to
the correct directory
(/Users/cameron/Sites/sample-site/)
Verify mod_rewrite is in fact on.
Verify you have copied the .htaccess
file in both the
/Users/cameron/Sites/sample-site/
and the
/Users/cameron/Sites/sample-site/webroot
directories.
Confirm that the
/Users/cameron/Sites/cake-1.3/
directory has a directory called
cake in it that contains the core.
Once all of this is confirmed, you will be good as gold!
Happy Coding!
UPDATE:
When the index.php file looks for the cake core, it will look for a directory inside the location you are pointing to for another directory called cake. So in your case:
define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', DS.'Users'.DS.'cameron'.DS.'Sites'.DS.'cake-1.3');
You must have the cake directory inside /Users/cameron/Sites/cake-1.3. Your directory structure will look like:
/Users/cameron/Sites/cake-1.3/cake
/Users/cameron/Sites/cake-1.3/cake/libs
/Users/cameron/Sites/cake-1.3/cake/config
/Users/cameron/Sites/cake-1.3/cake/console
etc.
CakePHP 3.0+
In CakePHP 3.0+ this configuration is moved out of webroot/index.php to App/Config/paths.php
If you have access to your php.ini, you can add the path to Cake core there. Doing it this way means you don't have to change webroot/index.php at all. Example in php.ini:
include_path = ".:/usr/local/lib/php:/home/something/phpinc/cakephp2/lib"
According to the CakePHP 2.x docs, this is the recommended way to share the Cake core (assuming you have access to your php.ini).
You can have only one cake core but you must have one app folder (containing MVC) by site.
Is this a misunderstanding of the folder structure of CakePHP?
From the docs (CakePHP folder structure):
The app folder will be where you work your magic: it’s where your application’s files will be placed.
The cake folder is where we’ve worked our magic. Make a personal commitment not to edit files in this folder. We can’t help you if you’ve modified the core.
So the cake folder shouldn't change between all of your uses, therefore you have 1 copy. You can always change some of the functionality of the core by making your own changes in the app folder i.e. extending.
There is no need to edit index.php.
Just put an alias (or link in UNIX) to your cake folder in each of your sites folder. Works perfectly. Same goes for plugins and vendors folder.