Hi all, First to explain what I'm trying to do: I've installed WHMCS and things are good, except that now I'm trying to 'secure the installation' via instructions: http:// docs.whmcs.com /Further_Security_Steps in particular the "Secure the Writeable Directories" heading... You wouldn't think it to be a problem, but no matter where I put the files outside of the public 'web' folder of the domain it won't work... existing full pathed folder is: /var/www/clients/client1/web1/web/whmcs/folder1 /var/www/clients/client1/web1/web/whmcs/folder2 /var/www/clients/client1/web1/web/whmcs/folder3 and I'm trying to move it to: /var/www/clients/client1/web1/whmcs-writables/folder1 /var/www/clients/client1/web1/whmcs-writables/folder2 /var/www/clients/client1/web1/whmcs-writables/folder3 ... of course the moving is easy and so is the permission change etc but when changing the necessary .php file I can't get the right path it seams... I've tried everything! I've even lost hair! Can anyone help? Is there a default /home I could use like with cPanel or Plesk? Is this an ISPConfig 3 Panel specific setting/issue? Thanks all!
anyone? maybe i'm over complicating this. Basically I'm needing to know is: How do I tell the config.php file to look at a physical path lower than where it's running from? I've used full paths but it fails... the config file is here: /var/www/clients/client1/web1/web/whmcs/ looking at a folder there called 'folder1'... I'd like the config file to look for that folder here: /var/www/clients/client1/web1/whmcs-writables/folder1 Can this be done 'relatively'?
ok solved by finally finding a reference to a similar case on this forum... it's all in the search terms Anyways, for reference: ::make sure that this path is included in the 'PHP open_basedir' path's under the website -> sites -> options page not sure if it's really more 'secure'.. but I bet it's better than default config... Thanks to all who read this...
Public accessibpel files do into the /web folder of the site, private files that shall not be accessible go into the /private folder of the site. You can also create new folders in both directories were nescessary but dont create any folders in web1 directly.
