If you are looking at this post you have probably seen the following error when trying to install Joomla 1.0.x:
restriction in effect. File(/var/lib/php/session) is not within the
allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs:/tmp) in
/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/installation/index.php on
line 154
The solution to this is two-fold:
Note: I am running CentOS with PLESK on a VPS for this example, but the principles should apply for other configurations as well.
1) You must change the location of the session save path.
While you could simply turn off open_basedir in your php.ini file I like to have this enabled since it is more secure. To change the location of the session save path add a new writable directory above your public http folders and make it writable (707 for my purposes). I named mine ’session’. Next add the following line to your .htaccess file
2) You must change the basedir for your account
Open /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/conf/httpd.include
Do a search for open_basedir and dhange all occurrences of
to
Disclaimer: Note that this will not work on all hosts - especially some shared hosts. I am interested if anyone has a better solution or if they see any security issues with this method.
May 18th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
I am using Apache and Virtuozzo on Plesk 8.3.0.
My problem was very similar: The Joomla! installer pre-installation check screen displayed “Unwritable” in red for the session save path parameter.
I did everything Dustin said above. But it still did not work. I tried about 20 other things, nothing worked. Finally, I found somewhere that you should re-start the Apache Web Server Service. I did that, and voila’!
May 18th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Sandi is correct. Anytime you change your php.ini settings you must restart apache for the settings to take effect. How this is actually done can vary - on the servers I use you type ’service httpd restart’ at the command line.