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Open_basedir Restrictions

On a shared hosting platform, domains are seperated from eachother for security purposes. Obviously you don't want another domain on the same server to have access to your files and databases.

Open_basedir is a protection feature to keep each domain, and the scripts contained within a domain to "itself". Open_basedir will forbid any attempt to "step outside a domain name into another domain name".

Customers may inadvertently trigger this protection when configuring scripts and the like. When setting up scripts please ensure any configuration variables pertaining to the domain are set up correctly (reference to Absolute Domain Paths).