# open_basedir Issue - Thread: https://externals.io/message/18911 - Original archive: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/18911 - Started by Aaron Greenspan on 2005-09-14T15:51:33+00:00 - Messages: 7 - Reply by email to internals@lists.php.net - More for agents: search with https://externals.io/search.md?q={query} · JSON API at https://externals.io/api · documentation at https://externals.io/llms.txt --- ## #18911 — Aaron Greenspan — 2005-09-14T15:51:33+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/18911#18911 Hello, 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. Anyway, here's the error: --- 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 --- Thanks, Aaron Aaron Greenspan President & CEO Think Computer Corporation http://www.thinkcomputer.com --- ## #18917 — Sara Golemon — 2005-09-14T17:51:36+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/18911#18917 · In reply to: #18911 > 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: Sara, > > The output is: > > /home/sites/site66/web/index.html I guess this is the answer: "All symbolic links are resolved, so it's not possible to avoid this restriction with a symlink." (c) http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.safe-mode.php#ini.open-basedir -- Wbr, Antony Dovgal --- ## #18923 — Aaron Greenspan — 2005-09-14T19:10:51+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/18911#18923 · In reply to: #18922 Antony, I'm not trying to avoid the restriction by using a symbolic link. I'm trying to enforce it, yet regardless of whether I put any of the following in my allowed path: /home/sites/site66 /home/sites/site66/ /home/sites/site66/web /home/sites/site66/web/ /home/sites/www.harvardchemclub.org /home/sites/www.harvardchemclub.org/ /home/sites/www.harvardchemclub.org/web /home/sites/www.harvardchemclub.org/web/ ...or any combination thereof, I am disallowed access to my files with the aforementioned error. I think this is a bug. Aaron Aaron Greenspan President & CEO Think Computer Corporation http://www.thinkcomputer.com --- ## #18924 — Sander Steffann — 2005-09-14T19:25:32+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/18911#18924 · In reply to: #18911 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. --- ## #18925 — Aaron Greenspan — 2005-09-14T19:35:53+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/18911#18925 · In reply to: #18924 Sander, Unfortunately, I can't switch the OS, and frankly, I shouldn't have to. This is a Cobalt RaQ 4i. Love them or hate them, there are thousands of these machines out there--and they're all running PHP. If this is an OS problem, and it doesn't work for me, then it's unlikely to work for anyone (which is a lot of people). I may be mistaken about the precise version number from my previous post. Here's the output of uname -a: [root web]# uname -a Linux kermit.thinkcomputer.com 2.2.16C37_III #1 Sat Apr 12 14:54:32 PDT 2003 i586 unknown ...and the first line of /var/log/dmesg: Linux version 2.2.16C37_III (root@kbuild.sfbay.sun.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Sat Apr 12 14:54:32 PDT 2003 Thanks for your help, Aaron Aaron Greenspan President & CEO Think Computer Corporation http://www.thinkcomputer.com