Client home directory access

[rwhirn]

I am new to Plesk, but I am familiar with Linux and have built my own personal Redhat 9 server. I have just purchased my first Dedicated Server running on RHEL5. I intend to use this server for only one client with only one website (to start may add a second site for them later).

I created the client and created the domain.

Two questions: first, in the client's home directory, which is /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/, why when I login as the client, can I not create any files or directories in here? If this is the client's home shouldn't the client be able to create stuff? (obviously I am able to login as "su" and create directories, but then I must chown them to the client).

Second, and more importantly, the website uses PHP include files stored outside the web root for sensitive password information. I went through the steps above, created a directory called "/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/includes" and gave the client rights to it and put all the files there, but my PHP pages are unable to access the files. I generally use "../../includes/file.php" but I have tried absolute path "/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/includes/file.php" and various other formats to no avail.

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here?

 

[j_kev@]

You cannot create any files in the /var/www/vhosts directory only in /var/www/vhosts/domain.ltd/httpdocs or httpsdocs.

All files related with publish site should be located into httpdocs directory. For example you can create httpdocs/include directory and use ../../include path.

 

[Amin Taheri]

Make sure that your web user can go out side of the root (httpdocs) and that you are not using a base dir restriction.