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Having read this EE manual entry:

http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/installation/best_practices.html

And wanting to ideally place the system folder above the httpdoc folder on my server, I gave it a whirl, but alas it didn’t work.

I host my site on a MediaTemple DV 4.0 Site, so I did some searching and fortunately there is a work around.

Take a look at this excellent guide here:

http://www.prioninteractive.com/2011/01/storing-files-above-the-web-root-on-media-temple-dv/

And the related Wiki article here:

http://wiki.mediatemple.net/w/(dv)_4.0:Set_the_path_for_open_basedir

Please pay attention to this line:

Reconfigure your webserver so it will look for your new vhost.conf file by doing this:

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/httpdmng --reconfigure-domain exam

Hope this helps any Mediatemple folks looking at more secure deployments.

All the best.

Thanks for posting this, I am on a grid server with media temple at the moment but I will be looking to upgrade, so this is really useful.