absolute path issue

  • Resolved Becki Beckmann

    (@becki)


    2 years, 4 months ago

    Dear support team,

    creating a backup job I always used absolute paths, eg

    /kunden/homepages/12/d123456789/htdocs/backups/full/
    /kunden/homepages/12/d123456789/htdocs/backups/mysql-dumps-only/

    but this is no longer possible. it always reverts back to relative paths

    uploads/backwpup-973b2f-backups/

    would be nice to get absolute paths back 🙂

    thanks a lot for auch a great plugin!

    Greetings
    Becki

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  • ellmann creative

    (@ellmanncreative)

    2 years, 4 months ago

    I just found the same problem. What’s going on guys?

    It seems that trying to set a relative path via ../../……. etc. also reverts it back to the default path.

    Editing it is fine, as long as it’s within the WP folder. As soon as I try to leave the folder, it reverts back to the default.

    Attempting to set a full path to somewhere within the WP folder also fails.

    Is this a security setting I can disable somewhere?

    happyAnt

    (@duongcuong96)

    2 years, 3 months ago

    Hi @becki, @ellmanncreative

    This is an intended behaviour for security reason, but we have plan to allow absolute path backup in the next version!

    Thank you for the suggestion!

    ellmann creative

    (@ellmanncreative)

    2 years ago

    Hey. What’s the plan here? I see I’m still restricted to making backup files in the very PUBLIC web directory. I’m on BackWPup version 4.0.4 now.

    Thread Starter Becki Beckmann

    (@becki)

    2 years ago

    if it’s urgent use this workaround -> in the database wp_options there’s an entry called ‘backwpup_jobs’.
    it’s a serialized php string. unserialize this string. modify value ‘backupdir’ with the path to your backup folder. then serialize the string again and update the database.
    best keep a backup of the ‘backwpup_jobs’

    https://onlinephp.io/unserialize

    use at your own risk and don’t update the job backup dir option via the web interface as it will revert back to relative path

    greetings
    Beckmann

    ellmann creative

    (@ellmanncreative)

    2 years ago

    Thank you. I guess I’ll do that, and come up with a MU plugin to fix those paths according to a pattern I typically use.

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