[Lazarus] GetAppConfigDir and GetAppConfigDirUTF8 and Apache

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2017, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote:

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> On Thu, 6 Jul 2017, Andrea Mauri via Lazarus wrote:
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>> Dear all,
>>
>> I have a question related GetAppConfigDir function when the application 
>> is called from a script being run by apache.
>> One of my application user gets this result from GetAppConfigDir(False):
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>> /root/.config/myappname
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>> since my app uses the local config dir to store some files if the 
>> directory does not exit, the app tries to create it.
>> Anyway since the resulting directory is in the root my app is not able 
>> to create the file.
>> Obviously the user doesn't want to give apache root permissions.
>>
>> Is there any solution? Any hint?
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> Normally, this means that the program is run as the root user.
> I do not see how else the GetAppConfigDir can return the root user home dir
> ?
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Forgot to say:

If you let apache set the 
XDG_CONFIG_HOME
or 
HOME
environment directories to something sensible, they will be used to
determine the config dir.

Michael.