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Make sure none of your files are symlinks or hardlinks pointing outside open_basedir.<br />
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Also try posting your domain's VirtualHost config file + the URL of a file throwing the error + the exact error output.
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Make sure none of your files are symlinks or hardlinks pointing outside open_basedir.

Also try posting your domain's VirtualHost config file + the URL of a file throwing the error + the exact error output.

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We fixed the issue ourselves, without assistance.
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We fixed the issue ourselves, without assistance.

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Hello,<br />
<br />
We have come across an issue with PHP open_basedir directive - on 3 of our servers (2 Windows Server 2012 R2 and 1 Windows Server 2016) using the directives throws errors 'open_basedir restriction in effect'. Even for files within the path. We have used it before with no issues. We use per site settings for each site so each site has its own open_basedir directive.<br />
A typical setup looks like this:<br />
[PATH=D:/Websites/name_of_<wbr />website/ww<wbr />w/]<br />
open_basedir=D:\Websites\n<wbr />ame_of_web<wbr />site\www<br />
error_log=D:\Websites\name<wbr />_of_websit<wbr />e\www\php_<wbr />log.txt<br />
upload_tmp_dir=D:\Websites<wbr />\name_of_w<wbr />ebsite\www<wbr />\tmp<br />
session.save_path=D:\Websi<wbr />tes\name_o<wbr />f_website\<wbr />www\tmp<br />
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Only thing that's changing are the paths.<br />
<br />
Any suggestions why it's not working?<br />
<br />
P.S. the 3 servers are running PHP 5.6.30 and 7.1.1, the issue happens on both versions.
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Hello,

We have come across an issue with PHP open_basedir directive - on 3 of our servers (2 Windows Server 2012 R2 and 1 Windows Server 2016) using the directives throws errors 'open_basedir restriction in effect'. Even for files within the path. We have used it before with no issues. We use per site settings for each site so each site has its own open_basedir directive.
A typical setup looks like this:
[PATH=D:/Websites/name_of_website/www/]
open_basedir=D:\Websites\name_of_website\www
error_log=D:\Websites\name_of_website\www\php_log.txt
upload_tmp_dir=D:\Websites\name_of_website\www\tmp
session.save_path=D:\Websites\name_of_website\www\tmp

Only thing that's changing are the paths.

Any suggestions why it's not working?

P.S. the 3 servers are running PHP 5.6.30 and 7.1.1, the issue happens on both versions.

Issue with PHP open_basedir on Windows Server

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