Open_Basedir Issue

[Wullie]

Ok guys/gals,

This is really puzzling me and I've tried everything I can think of. I know some may think this is a PHP issue, but it seems to me to be Apache causing the problem. (You will see why I think this in the following)

Specs:

Windows 2003
Apache 2.0.50
PHP 4.3.8

The following is in each Vhost:

php_admin_value open_basedir /www/USERNAME;C:\WINDOWS\TEMP

In the php.ini, no basedir restriction is in place.

The problem

On random occassions (I can't find any pattern at all) the php page is called and open_basedir kicks in saying it is forbidden. However, the script is within the open_basedir and the weird thing is that it seems to be inheriting the dir from elsewhere.

For example, lets say there are 2 sites on the server, example & demo.

The vhost for example would have:

php_admin_value open_basedir /www/example;C:\WINDOWS\TEMP

and the vost for demo has:

php_admin_value open_basedir /www/demo;C:\WINDOWS\TEMP

Now, I put a php_info script into /

http://www/demo/test

and it runs fine for a while but then I get a restriction error. The restriction error displays /

http://www/example

as the allowed dir, so there seems to be an overlap somewhere. If I refresh the page, it works again for a while.

In reality there are more than 2 sites on the server, but the restriction shown each time seems to be random. One time it may say /demo, /example and so on.

The reason I think this is Apache related and not PHP is that the wrong vhost info is being sent, so for it to send the line from the wrong Vhost would imply a problem with Apache.

Has anyone else come across this?

Any suggestions welcome.

Thanks in advance,

Wullie

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