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Per the best practices documentation, I have decided to move my system folder above web root. There is a problem, though. I have contacted my hosting provider, and they state that this is not something they can provide support for. Please tell someone at Ellis Labs can help.

Please note that this setup works flawlessly on MAMP, so it must be environment specific. My hosting provider is MediaTemple, and it is a dedicated virtual, which I know is common amongst EE devs. (no wishy washy hosting here to blame unfortunately)

Here is what is displayed when visiting develop.example.com.

Your system folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: index.php

Here is my system_path directive in index.php

$system_path = '../system';

Here are the PHP errors I am receiving

[Wed May 02 21:19:08 2012] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] PHP Warning:  realpath(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/var/www/vhosts/example.com/develop.example.com/system) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/example.com/develop.example.com/public_html/:/tmp/) in /var/www/vhosts/example.com/develop.example.com/public_html/index.php on line 125
[Wed May 02 21:19:08 2012] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] PHP Warning:  is_dir(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(../system/) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/example.com/develop.example.com/public_html/:/tmp/) in /var/www/vhosts/example.com/develop.example.com/public_html/index.php on line 134

I have no clue where to start with this one. Does anyone have any ideas?

It looks like apache is configured with open_basedir for security purposes.  This is a good thing.

You’ll have to adjust your httpd.conf to allow for your directory above htdocs.  Here’s a discussion about it:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/223800/how-can-i-relax-phps-open-basedir-restriction

Thanks. I got it working. It seems that I was not following the proper steps for my webhost in changing the open_basefir on my subdomain.

Those of you on MediaTemple, this article

http://blog.picdorsey.com/labs/running-expressionengine-under-a-subdomain-on-the-mediatemple-dv4-server#.T6KVCJ9Yswk

in combination with this

http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/514/How+do+I+set+the+path+for+open_basedir?#dv_40/requirements

should get you going.

Hey all,

Nice work here!

I am glad to see the community working so well together.

If you need anything else, please just let me know by opening a new thread.

Cheers,