Bug #17535
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index.php assumes current working directory to be PATH_site
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Description
After a recent PHP upgrade from 5.1.2-r3 to 5.2.4_pre200708051230-r2 on Gentoo Linux, the Typo3 frontend suddenly stopped working. After some investigation it turned out that the current working directory used in index.php is no longer the link source directory "PATH_site/", but the link target "/path/to/typo3_src/". Therefore, the relative paths used to include libraries via TS, like in my case templavoila, were no longer found.
Attached patch changes the current working directory to PATH_site at the very beginning of index.php. Thus, the assumptions about the CWD are fulfilled again.
It might be that this is a Gentoo specific PHP issue. After all, they seem to use a pre-release. However, clarifying the made assumptions about the CWD does not harm either.
Maybe someone with a test server can check PHP's beavhiour regarding the CWD of linked files in different versions. Consider the following test setup:
$ mkdir $HTDOCS/bar/
$ echo '' > $HTDOCS/bar/foo.php
$ ln -s $HTDOCS/bar/foo.php $HTDOCS/foo.php
It seems that the expected and old output of http://host/foo.php is "$HTDOCS". In my setup however, the output is "$HTDOCS/bar".
Setup: Apache 2.2.4-r11 with mod_fcgid and PHP 5.2.4_pre200708051230-r2 (FastCGI) on Gentoo Linux.
(issue imported from #M6158)
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