$profilePath has no effects

[SSoft7]

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Web Browser: 127.0.2651.98 (Official build) (64-bit)
ruTorrent: v4.3.9
PHP: PHP 8.1

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I'm not sure how to reproduce it. I just noticed it all of a sudden when trying to fix an UI issue.
I have a multi user setup.
The top conf file /rutorrent/conf/conf.php has $profilePath = '../../share';
But the user conf file /rutorrent/conf/users/USERNAME/conf.php has $profilePath = '/another/directory/';

If I remove user configuration under the /share folder it will get auto created each time I load ruTorrent. So, $profilePath = '/another/directory/'; has no effect.

I'm not sure what's happening here. the /tmp/errors.log does not show anything. There is also not much info on the error log.

This seems similar to #544 which was resolved by reinstalling the ruTorrent files and I did the same but not resolved till now.

Any guide to debug this?

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[stickz]

@SSoft7 Which version of ruTorrent are you running? The latest version is v4.3.6.

$profilePath = '../../share will bring you to the share folder.

From there you can do:
$profilePath = '../../share/users/username

This is the recommended way to store configurations for different users.

[SSoft7]

@SSoft7 Which version of ruTorrent are you running? The latest version is v4.3.6.

$profilePath = '../../share will bring you to the share folder.

From there you can do: $profilePath = '../../share/users/username

This is the recommended way to store configurations for different users.

Yes, I am using 4.3.6.

I want to put a custom absolute path in $profilePath and make $profilePath variable based on $username...Don't want to use relative paths.

It is used to work fine.

If you can reference the code lines, I can try to debug it on my own setup environment and post the findings here.

[SSoft7]

@stickz Just checking in. Is there any update regarding this issue?

I have checked this myself and found that moving line 59 to line 63 fixes this issue, because the user specific configuration file is not loaded when getProfilePath() is called on line 59, so the $profilePath variable is the default one, not the custom one specified within user's config.php

ruTorrent/php/util.php

Line 59 in df1783d

FileUtil::getProfilePath(); // for creation profile, if it is absent

However, since I'm not aware of this codebase, I'm not sure what will be side effect of making this change.

Can you kindly comment on this?