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I have moved my website to another hosting server. However, there is a little problem with fopen() function. Every time it is run, it is resulting with the following error:

Warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/www-virtual/www-username/www/bindata/gallery/GAL34e81b4adce22091c6ee31c71055e181.jpg) is not within the allowed path(s): (/www/default/www:/www/username_www:/tmp:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/php-5.2/lib) in /www/username_www/www/frontend/gallery/GalleryPage.php5 on line 112

I can't do anything with the PHP script because it is ionCube encoded.

What is left to do then?

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Change hosting companies now!

If they can't configure open_basedir correctly who know what other horrors lie in wait (yes, it might be valid for them to apply a blanket restriction - but if that were the case here why have they included someone else's dir in the whitelist).

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One possible answer (from Stack Overflow) is to set an exception to PHP's open basedir in a .htaccess file

<Directory /var/www/vhosts/domain.tld/httpdocs> php_admin_value open_basedir "/var/www/vhosts/domain.tld/httpdocs:/var/www/vhosts/domain.tld/zend" </Directory>

you can also completely remove the restriction with

<Directory /var/www/vhosts/domain.tld/httpdocs> php_admin_value open_basedir none </Directory>
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  • If they've restricted the open basedir (albeit that they've got it WRONG) then they should have blocked htaccess overrides. Commented Oct 28, 2011 at 12:39
  • @symcbean I agree, but it's worth a shot. If it fails then probably the only option is to move hosting companies or try the hard the task of getting the current hosts to change their policy. Commented Oct 28, 2011 at 12:44
  • Is it possible that somewhere in those encoded PHP files, is the absolute path? Commented Oct 28, 2011 at 16:28

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