How can PHP scripts "include" a no standard directory?

[peace5]

Hello,

I have installed on my OpenVz VPS:
Ubuntu-8.04-i386-minimal and
Webmin 1.490

I have installed Apache and PHP in standard directory.
My web root is /var/www

Here is my problem:

I have a PHP library and I do not want to put it inside my web root.

I mean I have to put my library in the directory: /temp/lib

How Can I make that PHP scripts can "include" them (/temp/lib)?

BTW, I am a newbie in Linux

Thanks

Peace5

[hugortega]

First, be sure that your dir has read access for every users.
Then, modify in your php.ini file the 'include path' variable to add your directory.
Finally, restart the apache daemon.

Hugo

[peace5]

Thanks for your reply

How can I do this "your dir has read access for every users"?

Thanks again

Peace5

[hugortega]

From your file manager, check the properties of the dir, and verify that read permission for all users is activated (I'm not sure which file manager you use, but normally is pretty easy to verify the permission on the any GUI)

JFYI, permissions in linux are on 3 levels: owner, group and others, and each level has read, write, execute flags.

Hugo

[elija]

First of all you need to make sure that the user that runs the apache process can access the folder. This is typically www-data in Ubuntu.

chown: -R www-data: /path/to/your/files

Then you need to include the files in your PHP scripts

[peace5]

Hello,

The Lib cannot start


I did this:

Path: /temp/lib

Step #1

modify in your php.ini file the 'include path' variable to add your directory.
Finally, restart the apache daemon.

Step #2

From your file manager, check the properties of the dir,
and verify that read permission for all users is activated


Step #3

First of all you need to make sure that the user that runs the apache process can access the folder. This is typically www-data in Ubuntu.

chown: -R www-data: /path/to/your/files

Then you need to include the files in your PHP scripts

Any suggestions are welcome!