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#37566 backup folder being misidentified outside site root
Posted in ‘Akeeba Backup for Joomla! 4 & 5’
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Environment Information
Joomla! version
4
PHP version
8.0
Akeeba Backup version
n/a
Latest post by Richard Chick on Tuesday, 27 September 2022 12:56 CDT
Friday, 05 August 2022 12:23 CDT
Richard Chick
Friday, 19 August 2022 09:33 CDT
nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
The output directory cannot be misidentified as being outside the web root of your site. Joomla tells us what the web root of your site is.
Please note that this does not cover symlinks. For example, you may have a site whose web root is /home/myuser/public_html and have a symlink /home/myuser/www pointing to the web root. If you give your backup output directory as /home/myuser/www/something instead of /home/myuser/public_html/something it will be considered outside the web root since we do not try to resolve symlinks. This is intentional. On some servers the symlink structure is such that writing to the the symlinked directories works BUT trying to resolve them via PHP will result in PHP telling us that the folder does not exist. It is a limitation of PHP itself.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
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Tuesday, 27 September 2022 12:56 CDT
Richard Chick
Thank you
Tuesday, 27 September 2022 12:56 CDT
Richard Chick
Thank you