Symphony.

Has anyone had any trouble or issues with PHP set to safe mode for their Symphony sites?

Nope, nothing this end.

There have been a few reports on the forums of odd things happening. The usual response is to turn safe mode off ;-)

Can’t do that I’m afraid! (grump).

It’s a host thing. I have run into issues during install. Safe mode uses the apache user instead of the one creating directories, so then Symphony can’t access them to add subdirs or files!

I have the option of using PHP as a FastCGI module, but I’m skeptical… I like to stick to what I know…

Anyone had experience with PHP FastCGI?

Anyone had experience with PHP FastCGI?

I know Rowan (buzzomatic) recommends it. Running it as FastCGI module solves the issue of file permissions screwing up when being managed by PHP/Apache.

Ok so that’s definitive enough for me! I’ll get it set up and give it a go… Thanks Allen…

Which provider is that? Safe Mode is deprecated in PHP 5.3.0 and is removed in PHP 6 (http://php.net/features.safe-mode)!

It’s 34sp.com They’re a very good host with very quick and helpful support, which is why I chose them after the problems I’ve had over the last month!

They’re running PHP 5.2.13 which I know is a little older…

They do have the ability to run any version of PHP as FastCGI which I’m going to try today (after Allen’s advice).

They may possibly be sticking to that version for the time being due to the safe mode support, I don’t know though…

Thanks for all the input peeps!

can you not turn safe mode off?

Nope. I asked support and they’re not willing to.

I’m getting pretty angry now with web hosts, they have the FastCGI option. Great, you’d think, until you try and use it and find that the version of PHP they offer isn’t compiled to handle anything.

I’m having to install it locally and then just copy all the files to the host, but I’m running into issues with a lockfile now?

Is there any way to do a full manual install?

I’ve answered my own question… Yes there is. Only I’m having permissions errors now, but I’ve added another thread about that.

Closed!