Editing Index.php via template page.

  • grayum

    (@grayum)


    21 years, 6 months ago

    I have my wordpress install in a directory called “blog” but the website address is my home directory. Consequently that’s where my Index.php file is. However, if I try to edit it using the templates admin page I get the old index file which still resides in my blog directory. Putting “..\index.php” as the file name returns “cannot edit a file beginning with ..” or something similar. Putting in the full path gets me a “no such file”
    Any suggestions as to how I can edit my wp-admin\templates.php file so that it points to the correct index file (or any other solution to my problem). This question was asked previously but attracted no satisfactory answer.
    Thanks
    Graham

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  • teknokool

    (@teknokool)

    21 years, 6 months ago

    I am curious about this one too as I am in the same boat..any info would be great for both of us 🙂
    Thanks

    TechGnome

    (@techgnome)

    21 years, 6 months ago

    Try just \index.php ….. with out the . or ..
    TG

    teknokool

    (@teknokool)

    21 years, 6 months ago

    Tried that and it didn’t work
    Jeff

    charle97

    (@charle97)

    21 years, 6 months ago

    go into the wp-admin folder and edit the templates.php file.
    look for the validate_file function. comment out using // the first if statement and the corresponding die function. also comment out the line just before the return at the end.
    validate_file function should then look like this:
    function validate_file($file) {
    //if (‘..’ == substr($file,0,2))
    //die (__(‘Sorry, can’t edit files with “..” in the name. If you are trying to edit a file in your WordPress home directory, you can just type the name of the file in.’));
    if (‘:’ == substr($file,1,1))
    die (__(‘Sorry, can’t call files with their real path.’));
    if (‘/’ == substr($file,0,1))
    $file = ‘.’ . $file;
    $file = stripslashes($file);
    //$file = str_replace(‘../’, ”, $file);
    return $file;
    }

    charle97

    (@charle97)

    21 years, 6 months ago

    i advise not making the above edit if you’re in a multi user environment with template editing privileges.

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