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Hi

I’ve just migrated an ee installation from my dev-server to the production server. Now, if I want to log in the administration-sector (/system), there ist a PHP Error:

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: is_dir() [function.is-dir]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/myoldpath/public_html/ee/themes/) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/:/tmp/)

Filename: libraries/Core.php

Line Number: 183

The path “/home/myoldpath/public_html/ee/themes/” is from my old server! And I cannot find, where i can change this path.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Ok, after hours of searching for a solution, i’ve found a guide for creating a robust config-file.

By adding these lines to my config, it works for me (with some little errors, but finally, i’m the admin-sector!):

$config[‘theme_folder_url’] = “http://mydomain.com/themes/”;
$config[‘theme_folder_path’] = “/var/mypath/httpdocs/themes/”;

I’m wondering, why this is not in the migration-tutorial. Am I the only one with this problem? If yes, why?

...moving ee is no fun. seriously

Hi Marco,

What you are seeing here is a server restriction so you would need to contact your host to get them to remove that restriction on your server.

This is also the reason why it’s not covered in the documentation as I’m afraid we can’t list all problems that might arise on all different servers.

This is definitely something that you would need to take up with your host though in order to get that restriction lifted.

Does that help at all?

Thanks,

Mark

Thanks Marco! You just saved me a ton of time. FWIW, I did not need to contact the host/etc.. only add the additional two lines to my config file.

The migration tutorial seems to make it more work than necessary:  A simple SQL dump, find/replace on the domain/www folder in SQL file, transfer site files, modify config and database files… done.

Zebradog,

Welcome to the forums. We’re glad to have you here. Glad to see this thread was helpful to you. Is there anything else I can assist you with?

Sean