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I'm trying to install a Joomla extension and get the message "Warning: is_dir(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/tmp) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/sites/vip........"

Is there a solution ? In the config file, the tmp folder path is set to tmp and I've also tried tmp. I've also set the permissions to 777.

I think a while ago I installed an extension locally and the FTPd it up

I was hoping there would be a simple fix.

I'm trying to install a Joomla extension and get the message "Warning: is_dir(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/tmp) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/sites/vip........"

Is there a solution ? In the config file, the tmp folder path is set to tmp and I've also tried tmp. I've also set the permissions to 777.

I think a while ago I installed an extension locally and the FTPd it up

I was hoping there would be a simple fix.

Your tmp path should be set to something like:

/home/sites/vip******/httpd/htdocs/tmp


I've just run through a quick install of 1.6 and then tried to add an extension. If you set tmp to /home/sites/vip******/httpd/tmp or just /tmp it will fail due to the open_basedir restriction. The path above worked fine for me.

Thanks for your help. I tried that and a number of other permutations. In the end I set the whole site to 777 and set the path to just tmp and it seems to have worked. I really thought I had tried that already. There was an error that flashed on the screen after installation, but don't have a clue what it said. Probably a file that wasn't copied.

Apologies Eccles. What I did a while ago must have been flawed although it worked.

The next time I installed an extension, I unzipped it locally and FTPd it up to the tmp dir. I set the tmp location in the second JOOMLA install option to install as you suggested but with the name of the extension add, e.g. ....../tmp/extensionnane and it works fine