I'm hoping someone out there can help come up with a solution or a clever
patch because right now the only alternative I see is an extremely painful
patch to the ports tree that I'd never be able to successfully maintain at
my place of employment.
The problem is that the way FreeBSD handles PHP -- complete modularization
-- breaks the FTP module. The FTP module cannot be built with support for
FTPS unless it is built statically into PHP along with OpenSSL. You can
test this yourself by running the following command:
php -r 'if(function_exists('ftp_ssl_connect')) {echo "ftp_ssl_connect
exists\n";} else {echo "ftp_ssl_connect does not exist\n";}'
As documented here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.ftp-ssl-connect.php
Note: Why this function may not exist
ftp_ssl_connect() is only available if both the ftp module and the
OpenSSL
support is built statically into php, this means that on Windows this
function will be undefined in the official PHP builds. To make this
functionavailable on Windows you must compile your own PHP binaries.
If you look at Debian and Redhat Linux distros there is no php5-ftp or
php5-openssl package. It's statically built into the base php5 package.
Even Gentoo appears to be doing it right because the ebuild just lets you
choose what options you want and it compiles the entire thing statically.
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/php/php-5.3.23.ebuild?view=markup
I've already submitted a PR, but I'd like some further input from the
community. I'm really in a sticky situation here because we were forced to
require FTPS everywhere and now things like Wordpress' self-upgrading
capability is broken. If we could flip everyone to SFTP I'd gladly do it,
but there are too many obstacles in the way for that to become a reality.
In short, is anyone out there interested in trying to figure out how to
get the FTP module to build with the SSL capability?
(Vinnie here has the same reaction I do:
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38951)
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