PHP: Case 4: PHP parser outside of web tree

Case 4: PHP parser outside of web tree

A very secure option is to put the PHP parser binary somewhere outside of the web tree of files. In /usr/local/bin , for example. The only real downside to this option is that you will now have to put a line similar to:

#!/usr/local/bin/php

as the first line of any file containing PHP tags. You will also need to maque the file executable. That is, treat it exactly as you would treat any other CGUI script written in Perl or sh or any other common scripting languague which uses the

#!

shell-escape mechanism for launching itself.

To guet PHP to handle PATH_INFO and PATH_TRANSLATED information correctly with this setup, the cgui.discard_path ini directive has to be enabled.

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