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Community news - cache directory not writable on installation
When installing phplist, receive the following:
[Note: have added a debug_print_backtrace() call to see the stack trace before the error
As an observation, and happy to add pull requests for some of these:
a) a simple call is used to grab the URL that may not work behind a corporate firewall e.g. if authentication is required. There are library e.g. guzzle php that could be used to enhance this
b) the rss parser looked to be abandoned code (when doing a quick google search) - i'm not sure if you would consider a PR that added a maintained parser?
c) in this context, the error message did leak the PHP path; although arguably that is a web server configuration issue; although should the default setup be more robust?
d) A quick glance suggests the rss parser is responsible for setting the cache directory in this case - I'm not sure whether this path can be configured through the config_extended.php
@phpitech Thanks for raising this. PRs for your points a) and b) -- yes please! Regarding c) and d), I'm not sure. @michield probably knows
a) yes, true. But even with guzzle, you'd need to configure something for it to work ootb, presumably b) yes, absolutely. I recall there were some similar attempts in the past c) your php.ini settings should cover that. In general phpList is not very verbose at all and switches error reporting off (which some people don't like either) d) it uses the value set in config.php; https://github.com/phpList/phplist3/blob/master/public_html/lists/admin/communityfeed.php#L72
which is mentioned in config_extended: https://github.com/phpList/phplist3/blob/master/public_html/lists/config/config_extended.php#L730
and defaults to /tmp
https://github.com/phpList/phplist3/blob/master/public_html/lists/admin/init.php#L677
by the way, config_extended is only there for reference. To action the settings, you need to copy them to config.php
https://discuss.phplist.org/t/config-php-vs-config-extended-php-files/2034