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Asked: 2013-08-16 23:27:03 +0800 CST

Ubuntu 12.04 php PEAR package problem

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I am using LAMP server on my Ubuntu 12.04 system. Before this time I have installed prestashop without any issues. But after a long time when I tried to install prestashop today, it really showed me a strange error. The error is like this:

Warning: require(/var/www/Prestashop/config/config.inc.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/Prestashop/index.php on line 27 Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/var/www/Prestashop/config/config.inc.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear/PEAR') in /var/www/Prestashop/index.php on line 27

For that I decided to debug the error so I went through many blogs and forums and I checked my php.ini file. The file is like this.

After going through many blogs someone had said that the error is for php pear package the link is here.

After that I just made edit my php.ini pear url like this:

;UNIX: "/path1:/path2"
include_path = ".:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/php/PEAR"

After that I just restarted my apache server but it did not worked for me. The same error is coming. So here can someone kindly tell me what's the issue here? and how to solve this?

12.04

2 Answers

  1. The error is produced by require() function. This function it will halt the php script when:

    • the given file (in your case /var/www/Prestashop/config/config.inc.php file) doesn't exist or
    • when the user that call the function doesn't have permission to read that file.

    According with:

    Warning: require(/var/www/Prestashop/config/config.inc.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/Prestashop/index.php on line 27

    your issue falls into the second case. To prevent this, you have to change the permissions for /var/www/Prestashop/config/config.inc.php file so that to allow other users to read the file. You can do this by running the following command from terminal:

    chmod +r /var/www/Prestashop/config/config.inc.php

    If the error will appear after for other files too, follow the same method to change the permissions.

    Check also the permissions for config directory. These must to be something like: drwxr-xr-x. If not, use this command in terminal:

    chmod +rx /var/www/Prestashop/config
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  2. Permissions on directory /var/www/Prestashop/config are wrong. They are drwx------ meaning that ONLY the newuser user can access them. The webserver is run as www-data and obviously it can't access your config directory.

    There's absolutely no harm at adding read permissions to both group and all.

    chmod +rx /var/www/Prestashop/config

    It might be considered a security issue adding write permission to the directory, but also this is disputable since /tmp/ is always accessible and malicious software tends to use that as a support directory.

    Of course don't give write access to the files themselves as that would be a security issue.

    If you really don't want to make it readable to the world you can change the owner to www-data

    sudo chown www-data /var/www/Prestashop/config

    that should be enough since files inside the directory are world readable (except for the xml folder that again needs the right ownership or permissions).

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