Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 03/19/07 14:10

Markus wrote:
> Hello
>
> Is it possible to determine the PHP path to the FTP base directory?
> ftp_pwd($conn_id) returns '/', while I need something like
> '/data/users/domain.com/'.
>
> I used a construct such as:
>
> $list = ftp_nlist($conn_id, ftp_pwd($conn_id));
> foreach ($list as $entry) {
> if (stristr($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], '/'.$entry)) {
> $split = explode($entry, $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
> $ftp_basedir = $split[0];
> break;
> }
>
> That works well in most cases; anyway now I have a case where
> $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] has a duplicate folder name, such as
> '/data/htdocs/domain.com/htdocs/', which makes the above process fail. I
> think of complicated things like have FTP write a file into the base
> directory, and let PHP search for it, but I hope there is an easier method!
>
> Thanks for a comment
> Markus

Which "ftp base directory"? Every user can have a different one.

And as you've found, the directory the user sees is relative to his ftp
root. The ftp user has no knowledge of any directory outside of his own
root - which is how it should be.

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