Hello,

I have recently moved my website from a hosed package on oneandone.co.uk to a dedicated server (for space + bandwidth + the chance to learn). But I am having a problem with Pear DB access through PHP.

The original website works fine at http://swdl.org but when I changed the links and copied it to the dedcated server it throws up errors:

Warning: main(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/share/pear/DB.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/httpd/vhosts/mynetdesk.org/httpdocs:/tmp) in /home/httpd/vhosts/mynetdesk.org/httpdocs/db_connect.php on line 5

Warning: main(DB.php): failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /home/httpd/vhosts/mynetdesk.org/httpdocs/db_connect.php on line 5

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'DB.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /home/httpd/vhosts/mynetdesk.org/httpdocs/db_connect.php on line 5

See for yourself at http://mynetdesk.org.

If anyone could help me identify / solve the problem I'd really apreciate it! php info at http://mynetdesk.org/info.php.

Thanks,

Richard Craddock

Hi, it looks like your PHP settings are different from the ones on the previous server. The "open_basedir restriction" is a security measure to deny your scipts access to files outside some defined directory tree(s). You may have to adjust the open_basedir directive in your httpd.conf (or perhaps php.ini) file by, for example, adding :/usr/share/pear/ to the end of the string.

See the manual:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/feature...i.open-basedir

My settings files are in:

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
/etc/php.ini

I hope this helps.

Simon

EDIT: The httpd.conf file may also source other configuration files like this: Include conf.d/*.conf.

Ahh! That makes so much sense! Thanks loads!

It seems to have solved the problem! However it has exposed another!

When I try to login the login page just reappears with no information in, it doesn't log me in. I think this is another server configuration problem as horde suffers the same problem!

Any ideas on what might be causing this? Horde technical support sugested that register globals might be off (which it was) but turning it on hasn't fixed the problem so couldit be something related?


Cheers,

Craddy

If there's no error message on the screen, it can usually be found somewhere else. I'd start by looking at Apache's error log (/var/log/httpd/error_log) or some other log, possibly defined in php.ini. PHP scripts can also have their own error handlers. Then I would search the Internet, LinuxQuestions.org and the PHP manual with some suitable looking piece of the error message.

You might try turning open_basedir off altogether. I'm looking at your phpinfo() page and it looks a bit funky now - open_basedir is only /usr/share/pear/. It's in the Master Value column too, which I guess is bad because it's a site-wide setting (?). The cause might ofcourse be some other configuration directive or wrong permissions/ownership on some files or directories that the script needs.

Hopefully someone who has had similar problems sees this thread.

Simon

I have done this (being turning off open base dir). There was a local one that was turning it off anyway, but that was only on this domain. I'll continue searching for the solution, but any ideas please let me know!


Thanks loads,

craddy