Comments on: How to have a central VCL for PHP location for all your websites

By: Anderson

Anderson — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:12:30 +0000

Thanks A LOT David Plock. Your tip works great !!!

(Ubuntu Server 7.04 Beta)
cd /var/www/vcl
tar -vzxf vcl_for_php_1_0.tar.gz
nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini [ include_path = "/var/www" ]
nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf [ Alias /vcl-bin/ "/var/www/vcl/" ]
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Anderson Francisco – anderson@unifal-mg.edu.br
University of Alfenas – Brazil – http://www.unifal-mg.edu.br

By: David Plock

David Plock — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:40:17 +0000

Update in the code I posted – some of the samples (the clock for one) did not work. Changing the Alias in the httpd.conf to:

Alias /vcl-bin “/usr/local/apache/htdocs/vcl”

Seems to fix the problem.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:49:16 +0000

Nope. It’s a framework you can use straight from PHP. Use it through Zend Studio if you like.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:29:57 +0000

VLC? You need PHP 4 Delpi though?

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:41:28 +0000

Good one david!

By: David Plock

David Plock — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:08:39 +0000

You can also implement a Central VCL on a Unix/Apache install as follows:

1) Upload the vcl folder to your web root. (assuming root is /usr/local/apache/htdocs for examples)

2) Edit your php.ini file include_path directive to also point to your web root.
(for example: include_path= “.:/usr/local/apache/htdocs”)

3) Edit your httpd.conf and enter a Alias for the vcl-bin that points to the vcl directory
(for example: Alias /vcl-bin/ “/usr/local/apache/htdocs/vcl/”

Now I can just upload the program files created by D4PHP to whatever folder I want.

I believe you can actually place the vcl folder outside your web directory structure. You would then probably need to add a Directory directive to the httpd.conf file to set the correct access permissions on that directory but I did not test this.

Other changes I made on the server were to increase the php memory size to 16M from 8M (I was getting memory allocation errors on the blog sample),

And I modified the system.inc.php and replaced the input filter code with a GPL input filter (my version of php 5.2.1 on server didn’t have an installed filter and I did not see one in the extensions).

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:32:48 +0000

Yeah, actually a .htaccess solution should work just as easily. I’d a reason I didn’t use .htaccess when I came up with this, but at the moment I cannot think of what in the world that might have been…

By: Fernando Madruga

Fernando Madruga — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:04:47 +0000

Actually, an alternative may be doing that in the webserver configuration: both IIS and Apache will allow you to do it without messing with lynks, and besides, NTFS links are “same drive” only which limits their usefulness…