RE: [cobalt-users] IP address / sendmail question

["Phil Beynon" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Here is what I do,
> Since adding anything to the httpd.conf or other related files can be
> disasterous on the Cobalt products.
> I add a line to an .htaccess file in the root of a website.
> (IE /home/sites/www.somesite.tld/.htaccess NOT
> /home/sites/www.somesite.tld/web/.htaccess)
> php_admin_value sendmail_path "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
> -fwebserver@xxxxxxxxxxxx"
> and chown root.root and chmod ug=rw,o=r
> This will allow the webserver to read it but keep the user for
> mucking it up.
> The reason I place it here and not in the web root is due to the
> fact that
> users tend to like to have their own .htaccess files they can edit.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> PS my other 2 favorites to add are
> php_admin_value safe_mode 1
> php_admin_value open_basedir "/home/sites/www.somesite.tld/web/"
>
> This keeps people from using php to snoop into other directories.
>
> (Make sure you add
> safe_mode_include_dir = /tmp/php:/usr/lib/php
> to your php.ini if you use the latter)

I discovered the extra field in mail() in PHP4 where you can put
the -fwebserver@xxxxxxxxxxxx bit and it works just fine - albeit with an
x-authentication error message embedded in the email headers, that's not an
issue for where it's going though - it was just a header wrapper detection
on the receiving server, it doesn't care about the internal bits and pieces
so I'm not taking it further!

Cool - got it working and customer is happy again!

Phil


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