Question

-rw-r--r-- 1 root      root        514 Jan 15 04:03 curl.php
-rw-r----- 1 root      root       1344 Feb  5 02:09 dbm-config.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 root      root       5149 Feb  5 02:19 mysql-connectivity-status.php

Here, Am accessing the file “mysql-connectivity-status.php” from url like
http://<ip>/html/DB-Monitoring/mysql-connectivity-status.php.

In mysql-connectivity-status.php I have called the file dbm-config.ini. While am accessing via URL am getting the following Warning.

Warning: parse_ini_file(/var/www/html/DB-Monitoring/dbm-config.ini): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/DB-Monitoring/mysql-connectivity-status.php on line 113

So, I don’t want to change the permission for the dbm-config.ini But how to I access the file using URL?

Answer 1

-rw-r—– 1 root root 1344 Feb 5 02:09 dbm-config.ini

The file can be read from and written to, by the user root rw- and read from by the members of the group root r--

If you access the php file using curl, this is executed most likely with your webservers user and group which is not root:root

That’s why php can’t read the ini file.
I recommend to move the file out of your document root so it can’t be accessed directly from the web, then change the owner to your webserver user and group

determine the username php is executed with

ps aux | grep "httpd" # apache environment
ps aux | grep "php"   # php fastcgi environment 

chown user:group dbm-config.ini