Problems moving J25 to new server

Question

I'm unable to move Joomla! 2.5.4 to another server.

Having built my Joomla site on my local machine, when I upload the site to the live environment (having updated the DB and corrected the settings in configuration.php) Joomla generates this error message when I try to reach the admin console.

Warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/path/to/administrator/defines.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/Library/WebServer/Documents:tmp) in /path/to/administrator/index.php on line 12

Warning: require_once() [function.require-once]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/path/to/administrator/includes/defines.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/Library/WebServer/Documents:tmp) in /path/to/administrator/index.php on line 18

Warning: require_once(/path/to/administrator/includes/defines.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /path/to/administrator/index.php on line 18

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/path/to/administrator/includes/defines.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /path/to/administrator/index.php on line 18

The installation is looking for the old path even though I have changed public $log_path and public $tmp_path to the new path in configuration.php

Answer 1

I would disable open_basedir, it tends to generate more problems than it solves.

If you need it, make sure the administrator folder is in the allowed paths.

Answer 2

I found this on the Joomla Site: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=710302

Finally got it... I was reading about the "open_basedir" directive. "

Did a locate php.ini and there it was: /home/xxxxx/htdocs/xxxxxxx.net/administrator/php.ini

If you have a php.ini file in this location, change the following two items to the correct paths:

upload_tmp_dir = your path here
open_basedir = your path here

Answer 3

You may need to update or remove a RewriteBase statement in the .htaccess file in the root folder of your website.

Answer 4

I have seen this happen before on a couple of sites. The first cause is one that is already mentioned with .htaccess/apache config issue.

The other cause I've seen is a caching problem. Try turning off the cache via manually changing the option in the /configuration.php file. You can also manually delete everything in the /cache directory except the index.html file.

Hope this helps.