.htaccess sets wrong path for error log

[feyp]

I got this error message in the webserver error logs for each file served by roundcube:

PHP Warning:  Unknown: Unable to access logs/errors in Unknown on line 0

This is because of this statement in /.htaccess

php_value       error_log       logs/errors

This statement should contain an absolute path.

[alec]

Nothing in my log, so maybe you've wrong access rights to such file/path? What PHP version?

[feyp]

The error goes away, if I set an absolute path to logs/errors in the .htaccess file. The permissions are ok, the webserver does have read/write access to this directory/file. In fact, errors are written to the log just fine (see my other bug report).

PHP version is: 5.2.9

[thomasb]

Relative paths work fine for me. Also we don't know your absolute path.

[feyp]

I did some further research on Google and it turns out that the error goes away, if both safe_mode and open_basedir is disabled. So please try the following to reproduce this:

* set open_basedir to something reasonable OR enable safe_mode OR do both * use a current stable version of PHP (5.2.9)

If you enable safe_mode, you'll get the error message i reported originally. If safe_mode is disabled and open_basedir is enabled, you'll get:

PHP Warning:  Unknown: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(logs/errors) is not within the allowed path(s): (/usr/share/php:/var/www/roundcube) in Unknown on line 0

Both open_basedir and safe_mode on are very common in shared hosting environments, so I still consider this a bug. Feel free to close this again, if you're not able to reproduce with safe_mode on/open_basedir or if you do not consider this a bug. I'll leave you alone then and just fix it myself in the future ;).

I know that you don't know my absolute path. But there are a number of ways you can work around this. A few suggestions:

* Write the .htaccess file during installation using the PHP installer * Set the directive using ini_set instead of using the .htaccess file * Trust your user to set a sane value for error_log that works for her and do not include this directive in the .htaccess file in the first place.

[lommy]

I can confirm that bug. With the default error_log value in the .htaccess file I'm getting the same open_basedir restriction errors in my Apache error log. I am using PHP 5.2.9-pl2-gentoo with safe_mode disabled and open_basedir to the main directory of Roundcube. Changing the error_log value in the .htaccess file to an absolute path to the logs/error file solves this problem. Sounds like a PHP bug for me. lommy

[thomasb]

Again, we cannot set an absolute path in the distributed .htaccess. The bug you describe may be valid but it's related to some special PHP configuration and is not a general problem of RoundCube. All we can do is to mention this issue in the README or INSTALL instructions.

[netbit]

Same problem here. Cannot use relative path with safemode ON. Please add this instruction to README or INSTALL.

[thomasb]

Fixed in r2874