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Mogstar
Mogstar

Reputation: 53

Open_basedir restriction oddness

I'm having a problem with move_uploaded_file in PHP, with the returned error message telling me that the open_basedir restriction is in place (which I've set) and that on the path I'm attempting to write to is not within the allowed paths, but it is (and is clearly displayed on the error message).

Has anyone come across this before?

Edit:

Sorry, the error message might help!:

Unhandled Error (/var/www/vhosts/(myhost)/libs/imanager.php, 226): 2, '...move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/var/www/vhosts/(myhost)/httpdocs/tributes/images/precrop/1317227884228.jpg) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/(myhost)/httpdocs/tributes/images/precrop/:/tmp)...'

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1376

Answers (4)

gcb
gcb

Reputation: 14554

Some directory in the path does not exist.

e.g.

; php.ini
open_base_dir = /var/www/a/b/c

if you move_uploaded_file('/var/www/a/b/c/d/1', $_FILES['x']['tmp_name']) and you only have /var/www/a but NOT /var/www/a/b then you will get the misleading

open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/var/www/a/b/c/d/1) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/a/b/c)'

which is weird.

After you create all the paths mentioned in open_base_dir, but still lack some inner directory, let's say you now have /var/www/a/b/c but is lacking /var/www/a/b/c/d, the same line as above will generate the error

move_uploaded_file(/var/www/a/b/c/d/1): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in someScript.php:123

which makes much more sense.

So, the answer to your problem: you are missing directories that are part of the open_base_dir path.

Upvotes: 0

ob-ivan
ob-ivan

Reputation: 832

Note that open_basedir will also fail if you have symlinks along the path. From http://php.net/open_basedir:

All symbolic links are resolved, so it's not possible to avoid this restriction with a symlink.

Please check if /var/www/vhosts/(yourhost)/httpdocs/tributes/images/precrop/ is a real directory path, not symlinked one.

Upvotes: 0

Vanav
Vanav

Reputation: 382

There is PHP bug ("Regression (5.3.3-5.3.4) in open_basedir with a trailing forward slash"), that is triggered when open_basedir have trailing slash. As workaround remove trailing slash from path in open_basedir. This bug should be fixed in recent versions of PHP.

Upvotes: 0

David Newcomb
David Newcomb

Reputation: 10943

Not come across this before. You can only use move_uploaded_file if the file you are trying to move was uploaded using PHP. Try removing the trailing '/' from your precrop directory in the configuration.

There's some extra open_basedir information here: http://www.bigsoft.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/12/30/fixing-php-s-require-open_basedir-restri

Upvotes: 0

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