Include Problem

[ManXP]

I have some strange problems including files from other accounts on cPanel server. This server is NOT managed by me, so I need some suggestions what could be wrong. Here is my code:


include_once(/home/aaa/public_html/file.php);


And I get this error - Warning: include_once(/home/aaa/public_html/file.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: Permission denied

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home/aaa/public_html/file.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php'


I checked /home/aaa/public_html/file.php and permissions/ownership is OK. open_basedir protection is disabled. What else could be wrong?

Trying to delete and re-create account "aaa" (so it got new files) didn't solve problem

[cPanelDavidG]

Is the server running SuPHP?

Note, if you do not have root access to the server, you really should be contacting your hosting provider regarding these issues.

[ManXP]

I just got root access. Server was running SuPHP, and I disabled it now, but problem still exists

[sparek-3]

Who owns the PHP script that is doing the include?

Who owns the file /home/aaa/public_html/file.php?

What are the permissions on the /home/aaa/public_html/file.php file?

[ManXP]

/home/aaa/public_html/file.php is owned by aaa

/home/aaa/public_html/file.php has permissions 644

[sparek-3]

The file that contains the code:

include_once("/home/aaa/public_html/file.php"); 

Who owns that file?

[ManXP]

This file is owned by user where file is located, of course.

I just checked all permissions once again and everything is perfect. I even created new accounts, uploaded new files, and issue still exists - files could not be included from other users. Like I said, open_basedir is disabled at all.

[sparek-3]

So another words the PHP script is not owned by the user aaa?

[ManXP]

PHP scripts are owned by users where scripts are located.

For example, /home/aaa/public_html/file.php is owned by "aaa".


Let's say I include this file from /home/abc/public_html/test_include.php. In this case /home/abc/public_html/test_include.php is owned by user "abc".


Same scripts work fine on 13+ servers

[sparek-3]

This has to do with the permissions of the parent folder of the file you are trying to include.

/home/aaa/public_html/file.php may have 0644 permissions, but I bet /home/aaa/public_html has permissions of 0750. Try changing the permissions on /home/aaa/public_html to 0755 and it should work.

For whatever reason it seems that include() needs to be able to traverse into the parent directory to include the file. I am not sure if this is the intended behavior or if this is a bug in the way PHP handles includes.

[ManXP]

Permissions are OK. Like I said, I even created new accounts, used new includes (from new accounts), and nothing works on this server. It drives me crazy now