I'm logged in as administrator for wordpress/forum and I go to add a topic/post.

I choose to insert an image - and then click on the icon on the right of Image URL to be able to choose a file on the server or upload my own.

In the top left of the new popup window I get this:

Images:
Warning: is_dir() [function.is-dir]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/..) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/…../:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/…../public_html/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/forum/uploader/sf-uploader.php on line 75

Warning: is_dir() [function.is-dir]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/.) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/…../:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/…../public_html/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/forum/uploader/sf-uploader.php on line 75

Obviously “…..” is the my home directory.

I hadn't noticed this before until recently - I don't think it was there. The time I noticed was after a 4+ hour outage by the server/webhost I'm with (3ix). After that occurrence, the warning pops up.

I am still able to view the images inside that directory and I'm still able to upload my own images. Functionally, things still work - although that error just pops up.

This is what happens and what it looks like:

Any idea what it is, if it's detrimental and how to get rid of it?

Thanks Papa!!!

Yes, I had a similar problem that required the same solution. Although my server has always been on PHP 5 since I've started with them.

I don't have that vhost.conf file so I asked my webhost - I asked them to enable openbasedir again. It turned out they had to disable openbase dir function rather than enable it.

Again, thank you for identifying the solution. Even after reading that linked post - I cannot see the relation between that problem and mine. So I never would have guessed to seek that solution.

Hi, i have the same pb. but i have never be on php4.

I found php.ini and the ligne : open_basedir= ??????

What do i have to do next ?

thank for your help

thank it's working now but another pb appears, i can't send .jpg image, it's working with  png, gif… but not jpg.

Is there a way to allow jpg ? and how can i set the maximun size ?

EDIT: It's working now, i changed the ligne :

if ($size[mime] == 'image/jpg' || $size[mime] == 'image/gif' || $size[mime] == 'image/png' || $size[mime] == 'image/bmp')

if ($size[mime] == 'image/jpeg' || $size[mime] == 'image/gif' || $size[mime] == 'image/png' || $size[mime] == 'image/bmp')

yeah, its a bug already documented here in the forum and fixed for the next version…