Problems with mod_Rewrite

Question

Hello,

Originally I had following .htaccess file:

php_value display_errors 1
php_value error_reporting 7

AddDefaultCharset utf-8

Options -Indexes
<Files ~ ".*\.(info|tpl)$">
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
</Files>

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

Which triggered 500 internal server error, so I moved first two lines to the php.ini file.

after that, error disappeared, but redirect is not working, it simply redirects to the empty page, error log shows: file not found also, another log shows:

PHP Warning:  Unknown: open_basedir restriction in effect. File() is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp/:/usr/local/:/usr/bin) in Unknown on line 0

I tried to write in RewriteLog which triggered 500 server error again

A little help? Thank you in advance

P.S.

cPanel 11.24.5-STABLE (Build: 38506)
Apache version 2.2.15 (Unix)
MySQL version 5.0.85-community
PHP version 5.2.9
Operating system Linux

Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.15 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_fcgid/2.3.5

Answer 1

As your reg-ex suggests

<Files ~ ".*\.(info|tpl)$">

you are allowing only .info and .tpl files to be accessed. Am i getting something wrong here?

Edit: Made comments when realised the error on my side.

Answer 2

You should look into the apache log - the error will be there and you will know what to fix afterward.

Answer 3

It looks like PHP is trying to open file with empty path, so there is clearly some error in the PHP script you're trying to access. Just check the access log on which URL did you get this error and try to fix the PHP script.