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Hi I am getting this error from the drupal site admin > settings page for www.rainbowplanet.com.au
* warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 33340 is not allowed to access /tmp owned by uid 0 in /home2/gavanbr/public_html/rainbowplanet/includes/file.inc on line 91.
* The directory /tmp does not exist.
What does this mean, how am I supposed to fix it?
I am a newbie and unsure what to do.
Can anybody help, it would be greatly appreaciated.
Regards
Gavan Bright
System specs
I am running Drupal 5.0
Operating system Linux
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Kernel version 2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp
Machine Type i686
Apache version 1.3.37 (Unix)
PERL version 5.8.7
PHP version 5.2.0
MySQL version 5.0.24-standard
Comments
#1
here is the code from the file.inc
<?php
>
function file_check_directory(&$directory, $mode = 0, $form_item = NULL) {
$directory = rtrim($directory, '/\\');
// Check if directory exists.
if (!is_dir($directory)) {
if (($mode & FILE_CREATE_DIRECTORY) && @mkdir($directory)) {
drupal_set_message(t('The directory %directory has been created.', array('%directory' => theme('placeholder', $directory))));
@chmod($directory, 0775); // Necessary for non-webserver users.
}
else {
if ($form_item) {
form_set_error($form_item, t('The directory %directory does not exist.', array('%directory' => theme('placeholder', $directory))));
}
return false;
}
}
// Check to see if the directory is writable.
if (!is_writable($directory)) {
if (($mode & FILE_MODIFY_PERMISSIONS) && @chmod($directory, 0775)) {
drupal_set_message(t('The permissions of directory %directory have been changed to make it writable.', array('%directory' => theme('placeholder', $directory))));
}
else {
form_set_error($form_item, t('The directory %directory is not writable', array('%directory' => theme('placeholder', $directory))));
watchdog('file system', t('The directory %directory is not writable, because it does not have the correct permissions set.', array('%directory' => theme('placeholder', $directory))), WATCHDOG_ERROR);
return false;
}
}
if ((file_directory_path() == $directory || file_directory_temp() == $directory) && !is_file("$directory/.htaccess")) {
$htaccess_lines = "SetHandler Drupal_Security_Do_Not_Remove_See_SA_2006_006\nOptions None\nOptions +FollowSymLinks";
if (($fp = fopen("$directory/.htaccess", 'w')) && fputs($fp, $htaccess_lines)) {
fclose($fp);
chmod($directory .'/.htaccess', 0664);
}
else {
$message = t("Security warning: Couldn't write .htaccess file. Please create a .htaccess file in your %directory directory which contains the following lines: <code>%htaccess</code>", array('%directory' => theme('placeholder', $directory), '%htaccess' => '<br />'. str_replace("\n", '<br />', check_plain($htaccess_lines))));
form_set_error($form_item, $message);
watchdog('security', $message, WATCHDOG_ERROR);
}
}
return true;
}
?>
#2
You need to disable PHP's safe_mode directive (in php.ini or your httpd.conf or an htaccess file) in order to get access to /tmp (and a bunch of other places).
#3
I cannot turn SAFE MODE off.
And the error message 'The selected file %file could not be uploaded, because the destination %directory is not properly configured.' drove me crazy.
Luckily, I found solution on http://jan.baresovi.cz/dr/en/drupal-safe-mode
Following code added to file.inc worked for me:
<?php
//adding new function
function mkdir_ftp($directory) {
$ftpuser = "_your_ftp_user_";
$ftppass = "_your_ftp_password_";
$ftpdir = "_your_ftp_directory_";
$ftpservername = "_your_ftp_server_name_";
$directory = $ftpdir . $directory;
$ftpConn = ftp_connect($ftpservername);
if(false == ftp_login($ftpConn,$ftpuser , $ftppass)) {
watchdog('file system',
'The directory cannot be created, ftp_login() failed.',
array(), WATCHDOG_ERROR);
return FALSE;
}
$list=split("/",$directory);
$directory="";$first=true;
foreach($list as $ldir){
if ($first)
$directory.="".$ldir;
else
$directory.="/".$ldir;
$first=false;
ftp_mkdir($ftpConn, $directory);
ftp_chmod($ftpConn, 0777, $directory);
}
ftp_close($ftpConn);
return TRUE;
}
//...
function file_check_directory(&$directory, $mode = 0, $form_item = NULL) {
//...
//if (($mode & FILE_CREATE_DIRECTORY) && @mkdir($directory)) { //does not work with SAFE MODE = on
if (($mode & FILE_CREATE_DIRECTORY) && @mkdir_ftp($directory)) { //does work with SAFE MODE = on
//...
}
?>