How to fix the open_basedir restriction error?

Question

Hy I have a script called dataface, on a shared host it outputs all the time this warning

    Warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. 
File(/usr/local/lib/php/Dataface/FormTool/text.php) is not within the allowed path(s):
 (/home/:/usr/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/a4385243/public_html/dataface/Dataface/FormTool.php on line 654

How can i fix this ?

Answer 1

open_basedir is a setting limiting access to certain directories for PHP scripts.

You are not including the line from your script that throws the error, but if I'd had to guess, I'd say your script is including Dataface/FormTool/text.php somehow wrongly (maybe it would have to be ../Dataface.... or something).

PHP then starts searching for the file in the include_path and gets stopped by the open_basedir restriction.