open_basedir Issue

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here? I'm using PHP 4.3.11 on
Red Hat 5.0 (Cobalt). /home/sites/www.harvardchemclub.org is a symbolic
link that points to /home/sites/site66. I've tried this with and without
trailing slashes. I added a comment to a similar bug report years ago,
which I believe has gone largely ignored, and now my comment seems to
have disappeared.

What is the output of:

<?php
echo realpath('/home/sites/www.harvardchemclub.org/web/index.html');
?

Hi,

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here? I'm using PHP 4.3.11 on Red
Hat 5.0 (Cobalt).

/home/sites/www.harvardchemclub.org is a symbolic link that points to
/home/sites/site66.

[...]

[Reformatted for readability:]
Warning: fopen(): open_basedir restriction in effect.
File(/home/sites/www.harvardchemclub.org/web/index.html) is not within the
allowed path(s):
/home/sites/site66
/home/sites/www.harvardchemclub.org
/home/think/lampshade
/home/think/whiteboard
/home/think/mail
/home/think/phpmyadmin
in /home/think/whiteboard/shared/shared.inc.php on line 565

With the information you have given I think this should work. This is a
VERY old platform to run on. Any chance you can try this on more recent OS
release?

• Sander.