[SPTUsers] Installation problem: file_uploads configuration directive

[Darin Burleigh]

On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 03:11 PM, Edward Almasy wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 18, at 01:00:10PM, Ammerman, Jackie wrote:
>> When configuring SPT with the "SPT--Install.php" page I get the  
>> following
>> error:
>>   Your web server does not have file uploads enabled (via the  
>> file_uploads
>>   configuration directive), which are required for the software to  
>> operate
>>   correctly.

>    The file_uploads directive is actually part of the PHP portion of
>    the server configuration, which (I believe) under RedHat 9 appears  
> in
>    /etc/php.ini.
>
>    It's covered in the PHP documentation very briefly here:
>         
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.directives.php#ini.file- 
> uploads

On MacOS X, php comes installed by default as an Apache module, which  
means
it does not have a 'php.ini' file.  To set this option, edit the Apache  
httpd.conf file:

<IfModule mod_php4.c>
   php_admin_flag file_uploads on
</IfModule>

After restarting the web server, you can test that the value has  
changed using
th commands 'php_info()'  or ini_get( "file_uploads")'.

However, the docs for the 'get_cfg_var' command state:

  "It will NOT  return configuration information set when the PHP was
  compiled, or read from an Apache configuration file (using the
  php3_configuration_option directives). "
(emphasis mine)

The install script tests for the  'file_uploads' option using
'get_cfg_var' and not 'ini_set', and therefore fails. One workaround
is to edit the file CWIS--Install.php.

-darin


Darin Burleigh
Systems Programmer, Journal of Chemical Education
burleigh at chem.wisc.edu
(608) 262-8647