Setting in PHP.INI limiting whether PHP can access files outside of the specified directory tree.
Questions tagged [open-basedir]
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WP ERROR: Warning: file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(core/post-comments) is not within the allowed path(s)
a friend of mine is running a WordPress site and suddenly started getting this error on administrative pages.
Warning: file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(core/post-comments) is not within the allowed path(s):…
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Acces file from plugin 1 to plugin 2
I've created a working plugin and now I've created a second one.
I would like to acces a file that's in the plugin 2 directory, from within the plugin 1 directory.
I've tried it by using the below code:
require_once…
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Ubuntu. Disable open_basedir and safemode
I am running an Ubuntu 10.04 VPS server with PHP 5.3.
I got an error saying that curl does not work with safe mode and open_basedir activated
Severity: Warning
Message: curl_setopt_array(): CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in…

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Plesk website - PHP open_basedir restriction in effect. File is not within the allowed path
I'm trying to run this code:
$img = new Imagick('ttt.jpg');
$quality = $img->getImageCompressionQuality();
echo $quality;
I have two websites which have this code and they are running on plesk.
This code works fine on one of the websites but on the…
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Drupal / ImageMagick Error: open_basedir restriction in effect
I'm trying to use the ImageMagick toolkit in Drupal, but keep getting this error:
warning: file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect.
File(/usr/bin/convert) is not within the allowed path(s):…

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PHP: Can't Set Open_basedir
I try to execute:
var_dump(ini_set("open_basedir",ini_get("open_basedir")));
with PHP and get false.
Apache 2. PHP Version: 5.3.28, it should change it from script, how i read at php.net documentation.
Currently open_basedir is…

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Why am I getting php error
I am working on twitter login application
my config.php is:
//My modification of Abraham's Config specifically for calling variables from the Question2Answer DB
////// First establish base directory for app
define('QA_BASE_DIR',…

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file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/bin/ffprobe) is not within the allowed path(s)
after changing the value of open_basedir in php.ini in this path…

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How to disable "ini_set" and "exec" for a particular VirtualHost?
I'm already using open_basedir to restrict a VirtualHost to a certain directory:
ServerName test.example.com
DocumentRoot /sites/test/www
php_admin_value "open_basedir" "/sites/test/www"
AllowOverride…

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PHP restricted to document root, not file system root
I'm trying to change a text file located inside the /etc/nginx directory via php. I'm using fopen() to do this, however, I cannot access any directory outside my websites root folder.
For example, I have my website stored in the absolute path:…

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open_basedir does not seem to set the base path
On my Synology (linux) server I have set-up three Apache2.4 / PHP web environment with the roots being:
/volume1/web
/volume1/webDevZone
/volume1/webTstZone
I would like to have a mechanism where I can call something like echo $_SERVER…

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PHP - reach open_basedir maximum security
I run a server for several websites, driven by ISPConfig. There are (for now) 4 php versions installed : 5.6, 7.0, 7.2, 7.3.
I would like to maximize the security and I arrived at the open_basedir settings. The directories allowed are…

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open_basedir loose it interest with a parent folder?
I use open_basedir with the ini_set function. I want to restrict it to a specific directory like this
__DIR__ . '/my_directory';
So like this it works! I can't include the parent folder with this include
include "../parent/my_file.php";
But if I…

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CaBundle open_basedir restriction
We have a project that has been in production for months (all its configs were working fine, no issues - including https and user access).
We rewrote part of code under Symfony 4 (no framework was used before that). Everything works perfectly on…

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PHP Error Log - why am I getting so many openbase_dir issues?
Firstly, apologies for the vague title. Not sure how best to word it. I'll start off with a copy of my php logs.
[25-Jun-2019 12:21:44] WARNING: [pool corrigansni.ivech.co.uk] child 58505 said into stderr: "NOTICE: PHP message: PHP Warning: …

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