"open_basedir restriction in effect" (new install)

craigontour · 2006-02-10 23:31:37

I have just installed and setup textpattern on my ISP site at www.domain.com/textpattern-4.0.3. Although I can get to the admin page at www.domain.com/textpattern-4.0.3/textpattern/index.php the main page at www.domain.com/textpattern-4.0.3/index.php doesnt work.
Gives lots of errors about open_basedir, e.g.
Warning: main(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/htdocs/textpattern-4.0.3/textpattern/publish.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs:/tmp) in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/textpattern-4.0.3/index.php on line 27

I think it might be to do with the errors shown in Diagnostics tab (see below) or with the Adv Prefs which include following:
Image directory: /textpattern-4.0.3/images
Temp folder: /textpattern-4.0.3/textpattern/tmp
File Upload Path: /textpattern-4.0.3/files

Any ideas?

Cheers
Craig.

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Diagnostic info:
Textpattern version: 4.0.3 (r1188)
last_update: 2006-02-10 21:21:01/1970-01-01 00:00:00
Document root: /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs
$path_to_site: /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/textpattern-4.0.3
Textpattern path: /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/textpattern-4.0.3/textpattern
Permanent link mode: section_id_title
open_basedir: /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs:/tmp
upload_tmp_dir: /tmp
Temp folder: /textpattern-4.0.3/textpattern/tmp
Site URL: www.domain.com
PHP version: 4.4.2
Register globals: 1
server_time: 2006-02-10 23:23:28
MySQL: 4.1.11
Locale: en_GB.ISO_8859-1
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_python/2.7.10 Python/2.2.2 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_perl/1.29 mod_throttle/3.1.2 PHP/4.4.2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7e
Apache version: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_python/2.7.10 Python/2.2.2 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_perl/1.29 mod_throttle/3.1.2 PHP/4.4.2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7e
php_sapi_mode: apache
os_version: FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p13

Pre-flight check:
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Image directory is not writable: /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/notdotcom.com/httpdocs/textpattern-4.0.3//textpattern-4.0.3/images
File Upload Path is not writable: /textpattern-4.0.3/files
Temp folder is not writable: /textpattern-4.0.3/textpattern/tmp
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.htaccess file contents:
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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^(.+) – [PT,L]

RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php
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(Edit: assumed resolved and marked as such. :) -Mary)

1beb · 2006-02-10 23:57:53

Change the directory structure as follows:

url.com/textpattern/
url.com/images/
url.com/files/
url.com/tmp/

or, at least, try removing the -4.0.3 from the end of the first directory…

craigontour · 2006-02-11 15:59:43

Ok, so I reinstalled the whole thing from scratch.
I ftp’d the folder at textpattern-4.0.3/textpattern to site as textpattern, and then the textpattern-4.0.3/images as images and textpattern-4.0.3/files as files. Then I moved textpattern-4.0.3/textpattern/tmp to tmp.
This worked better than any other way so far and seemed to work ok.
I forgot to remove update and setup so I got that message about /usr/… still exists so I binned them and it went away.
Then I had to change permissions to images, files and tmp to 777 and the messages for those went away.
At last ….. alll checks passed!

So I then went to my site at www.url.com/index.php (being that I’ve now moved all the directories to that level) and I still get a bunch of these errors:

Warning: main(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/httpdocs/textpattern/publish.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/notdotcom.com/httpdocs:/tmp) in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/notdotcom.com/httpdocs/index.php on line 27

Warning: main(/httpdocs/textpattern/publish.php): failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/notdotcom.com/httpdocs/index.php on line 27

Warning: main(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/httpdocs/textpattern/publish.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/notdotcom.com/httpdocs:/tmp) in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/notdotcom.com/httpdocs/index.php on line 27

Warning: main(/httpdocs/textpattern/publish.php): failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/notdotcom.com/httpdocs/index.php on line 27

Warning: main(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/httpdocs/textpattern/publish.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/notdotcom.com/httpdocs:/tmp) in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/notdotcom.com/httpdocs/index.php on line 27

Warning: main(/httpdocs/textpattern/publish.php): failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/notdotcom.com/httpdocs/index.php on line 27

Warning: main(): Failed opening ‘/httpdocs/textpattern/publish.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/local/psa/apache/lib/php’) in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/notdotcom.com/httpdocs/index.php on line 27

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: textpattern() in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/notdotcom.com/httpdocs/index.php on line 28

Now when I go to Diagnostics tab I see that there are write errors for images and tmp even though I’ve set them to writable.

Please, please help – it looks a great app.
Cheers

1beb · 2006-02-11 20:50:17

Did you change your config.php file to the same effect? I’ve seen these errors before. When I messed up on a path. Not to say that this is what you did, although it’s quite possible.

Last edited by 1beb (2006-02-11 20:53:04)

craigontour · 2006-02-11 23:29:33

Config.php looks like:
<?php
$txpcfg[‘db’] = ‘mydb’;
$txpcfg[‘user’] = ‘admin’;
$txpcfg[‘pass’] = ‘pass’;
$txpcfg[‘host’] = ‘www.url.com’;
$txpcfg[‘table_prefix’] = ‘’;
$txpcfg[‘txpath’] = ‘/httpdocs/textpattern’;
$txpcfg[‘dbcharset’] = ‘utf8’;
?>

Is that right?

Sencer · 2006-02-11 23:40:44

The only prolem you had (have), was (is) likely that your txpath setting in config was wrong.

Instead of
/httpdocs/textpattern...
it should have been something like:
usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/notdotcom.com/httpdocs/textpattern...

beztak · 2006-11-02 08:10:52

I have same problem, I tried to modify txp_path but without success

Error report:

Warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/tmp/txp_tuiHBd) is not within the allowed path(s): (/DISK2/WWW:/DISK3/WWW:/DISK2/TMP) in /DISK2/WWW/ovsem.net/www/textpattern/lib/txplib_misc.php on line 973

Diagnostics

Verze Textpattern: 4.0.3 (r1188)
Poslední změna: 2006-10-31 20:20:41/2005-12-31 12:31:45
Hlavní adresář dokumentů: /usr/local/apache2/htdocs
$path_to_site: /DISK2/WWW/ovsem.net/www
Cesta k Textpattern: /DISK2/WWW/ovsem.net/www/textpattern
Podoba stálých odkazů?: section_title
open_basedir: /DISK2/WWW:/DISK3/WWW:/DISK2/TMP
upload_tmp_dir: /DISK2/TMP
Adresář dočasných souborů?: /DISK2/WWW/ovsem.net/www/images
Adresa serveru: www.ovsem.net
Verze PHP: 5.1.6
Globální proměnné: 1
Místní čas na serveru: 2006-11-02 09:06:15
MySQL: 5.0.26-log
Místní prostředí?: cs_CZ.UTF-8
Server: Apache
Verze Apache: Apache
API pro PHP na serveru: apache2handler
Verze operačního systému: Linux 2.6.18.1

Obsah souboru .htaccess:
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#DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
#Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteBase /

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^(.+) – [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ovsem\.net
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.ovsem.net/ [R=301,QSA]
</IfModule>

CONFIG:

$txpcfg[‘db’] = ‘txp_db’;
$txpcfg[‘user’] = ‘user’;
$txpcfg[‘pass’] = ‘pass’;
$txpcfg[‘host’] = ‘mysql’;
$txpcfg[‘table_prefix’] = ‘’;
$txpcfg[‘txpath’] = ‘/DISK2/WWW/ovsem.net/www/textpattern’;
$txpcfg[‘dbcharset’] = ‘utf8’;

Can you help?

Last edited by beztak (2006-11-02 08:18:46)

ruud · 2006-11-02 08:39:22

In the Textpattern advanced preferences, try changing the ‘temporary directory path’ to: /DISK2/WWW/ovsem.net/www/textpattern/tmp

Last edited by ruud (2006-11-02 08:41:23)

HarryG · 2011-04-28 08:28:48

I have the same problem. This is the error message:

Warning: is_readable() [function.is-readable]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/dev/urandom) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/:/usr/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/u292440919/public_html/textpattern/lib/PasswordHash.php on line 51

Here’e the Textpattern-install-generated config.php (with some fields obfuscated):

<?php
$txpcfg[‘db’] = ‘u292440919_db’;
$txpcfg[‘user’] = ‘u292440919_usr’;
$txpcfg[‘pass’] = ‘myPW’;
$txpcfg[‘host’] = ‘mysitehost.com’;
$txpcfg[‘table_prefix’] = ‘’;
$txpcfg[‘txpath’] = ‘/home/u292440919/public_html/textpattern’;
$txpcfg[‘dbcharset’] = ‘utf8’;
?>

Thats’ a good database name and username. And a good hostname.

I would be grateful for any help.

Thanks

Gocom · 2011-04-28 09:06:01

HarryG wrote:

I have the same problem. This is the error message:

Warning: is_readable() [function.is-readable]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/dev/urandom) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/:/usr/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/u292440919/public_html/textpattern/lib/PasswordHash.php on line 51

That should only effect generating password hashes during logging in. You can ignore the message or you can replace /textpattern/lib/PasswordHash.php with SVN version of PasswordHash.php.

HarryG · 2011-04-28 09:28:08

’Thanks. Installed the upgrade to the password hash and it didn’t help. The problem most likely lies with the (free hosting) server. Besides the above error, Admin > Diagnostics reports:

Textpattern version: 4.4.0 (r3514)
Last Update: 2011-04-28 08:32:25/2011-04-28 07:55:35
Document root: /usr/local/apache/htdocs ()
$path_to_site: /home/u292440919/public_html
Textpattern path: /home/u292440919/public_html/textpattern
Permanent link mode: section_id_title
open_basedir: /home/:/usr/lib/php:/tmp
upload_tmp_dir: /tmp
Temporary directory path: /home/u292440919/public_html/textpattern/tmp
Site URL: familystudies.co.cc
PHP version: 5.2.17
GD Image Library: version bundled (2.0.34 compatible), supported formats: GIF, JPG, PNG
Server TZ: America/New_York
Server Local Time: 2011-04-28 05:20:53
DST enabled?: 0
Automatically adjust DST setting?: 0
Time Zone: America/Toronto (-14400)
MySQL: 5.0.91-community
Locale: en_US.UTF-8
Server: Apache
Apache version: Apache
PHP Server API: apache2handler
RFC 2616 headers:
Server OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5
Admin-side theme: classic 4.4.0

Pre-flight check:
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The following PHP functions (which may be necessary to run Textpattern) are disabled on your server: mysql_list_dbs, ini_alter, pfsockopen, openlog, syslog, symlink, link, chgrp, leak, escapeshellcmd, apache_child_terminate, apache_getenv, apache_note, apache_setenv, virtual, mb_send_mail <!— strange: txp sent me a password-change notice. —>

clean_url_data_failed: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN”>
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.htaccess file contents:
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#DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

#Options +FollowSymLinks
#Options -Indexes
#ErrorDocument 403 default

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On #RewriteBase /relative/web/path/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^(.+) – [PT,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} !^$ RewriteRule .* – [E=REMOTE_USER:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>

#php_value register_globals 0

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Not being a guru, I could really use some help.

TY

ruud · 2011-04-28 12:04:21

If you can access the diagnostics tab, you can log in. What is the problem? Please provide a detailed step-by-step description of how to reproduce it and what is that makes you think it is a problem.

The disabled functions aren’t a problem, as far as I can tell after looking at them briefly. TXP doesn’t use the ‘mb_’ function to send email.

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"open_basedir restriction in effect" (new install)

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