[TYPO3-dev] Templavoila FCE with absolute URL

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi!

>> I've created a FCE with one of its fields as URL.
>>
>> If I enter an absolute URL e.g. a link to RSS-Feed "/rss.xml" I get an 
>> open_basedir restriction error.
>> Warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir 
>> restriction in effect. File(/rss.xml) is not within the allowed 
>> path(s): 
>> (/var/www/vhosts/example.org/subdomains/dev/httpdocs:/tmp:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/typo3:/usr/bin:/proc/loadavg) 
>> in 
>> /var/www/vhosts/example.org/subdomains/dev/httpdocs/typo3_src_4.3/typo3/sysext/cms/tslib/class.tslib_content.php 
>> on line 5353
>>
>> I think this is caused by "RFC #9285: Remove all @ in front of 
>> file_exists() calls" [1]
>>
>> Don't know if it should be possible to enter absolute URLs - at least 
>> the error message should be suppressed.
>>
>> [1] http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=9285
> 
> I do not know what you try to achieve but TYPO3 definitely treats your 
> "url" as a file, located at the root of the hard drive. Removal of @ is 
> not relevant. It will hide error but not cure it.

Yes, giving /rss.xml to a PHP function is treated as a file, not as an 
URL. You need to give a hostname and a protocol such as http:// if you 
wish to treat this an URL instead.

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Xavier Perseguers
http://xavier.perseguers.ch/en