PogoPlug + PHP + Apache + Samba share

[ConstantiusGallus]

Hello,

I am new to this forum, PogoPlug and Linux in general. I apologize if this problem has been addressed in some form but I could not locate an answer via Google the last few hours. I was able to setup a PogoPlug v1 as an apache + PHP server.

***The following setup works fine in Ubuntu!!!!

I have a problem when I try to add samba to the mix. I mounted my time capsule share(holds media / html / scripts) to the following directory:

/srv/http/

It is mounted with fstab, cifs: options => user,exec, uid, gid where uid and gid are my user account and not root. On the console I CAN read/write my files. The permission is shown below for my user.

-drwxr-xr-x 1 <user> users Media ...

Also, I CAN remotely read and access the files via HTTP from my other machine. However, I can NOT execute the PHP files that are located under /srv/http.

If I don't mount using cifs/samba and simply copy files into /srv/http everything works fine(PHP included). I also mounted a share to a subfolder like /srv/http/media and tried to access the files via a PHP like /srv/http/test.php. The script ran but it could not access any of the folders / files mounted from the samba share.

Again, this simple setup worked fine on Ubuntu so I am stumped. I checked error logs in var ... etc. Nothing helpful... Can someone give me a hint? Thanks in advance.

[WarheadsSE]

I am guessing that php, running under Apache, is not in the group needed to execute the files.

note: I don't use Apache at home, so I can't speak to that directly, but that is the initial suspect.

[ConstantiusGallus]

As an addendum ...

I tried interactive php.

1) I mounted my samba share to /srv/http/Media. The I ran this on the console:

php -r 'echo "Result: " . is_dir("/srv/http/Media") . "\n";'

Output => Result:

2) The I unmounted my samba share to /srv/http/Media. Ran the same command:

Output => Result: 1

3) Also tried the is_file which returned NULL and tried subdirectories like /srv/http/Media/Videos

So it looks like PHP does not recognize the samba folders or files correctly. Is this a bug? If so is it a PHP or samba or something else?

[Raymondday]

This is what I had to do to get samba working and it works super good now. I posted it here on this link. I told like a easy step-by-step way.

-Raymond Day

[WarheadsSE]

That's not the problem he is having Raymondday, he's having issues getting PHP to access the files mounted from a different device's share.

If you having a matching config in Ubuntu that works, can you check the differences between memberships, ownerships and mount permissions?

[Raymondday]

O yes. It's the same with my looks like Apache will not show index.php!

I have not found how to fix it.

-Raymond Day

[pepedog]

These 2 lines in httpd.conf are needed
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
Include /etc/httpd/conf/extra/php5_module.conf
Then restart it

[Raymondday]

I have Gallory 3 and phpBB3 installed. But when I go to there web pages the Gallory 3 can not be displayed even if I put /index.php/ on the end of the URL

The phpBB3 comes back as text the top lines like this:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '<?php
/**
*
* @package phpBB3
* @version $Id$
* @copyright (c) 2005 phpBB Group
* @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php GNU Public License
*
*/')

That's in http://192.168.2.114/phpBB3/

But if I put index.php on the end of that it comes up.

So how can I tell Apache to auto load index.php like it does index.htm and index.html ?

All so I all ways have to put in it's IP number I can put it it's name "alarm" to go to it. I guess it's something how it's doing the hostname.

-Raymond Day

[kmihelich]

You should find this page useful: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LAMP

You won't be able to put in "alarm" or whatever you change your hostname to without DNS assistance.

[Raymondday]

I went to the LAMP set up link you gave and did all to get things I want running. I got all the way to the end of it.

After doing

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[root@alarm ~]# /etc/rc.d/httpd restart
:: Restarting Apache Web Server [DONE]
[root@alarm ~]#')

Then going to http://192.168.2.114/phpBB3/ I still get text. But if I put in http://192.168.2.114/phpBB3/index.php it works.

I have other Linux boxes were I can just put in there name and not IP to go to there LAN web page or samba folders. Is DNS assistance something I have to install in PogoPlug Pro?

-Raymond Day