System Path Issue

[eluser]mhiggins[/eluser]
Hi Matt,

I stumbled across your post as I had the same problem, also on Media Temple DV and the issue is related to how Plesk works with subdomains.

The problem originates from restrictive access permissions for PHP under Plesk. For security reasons PHP can only access /tmp and the httpdocs folders. So, PHP will tell you the directory doesn't exist.

Note that you will need to do all this as root

Assuming you want to use staging.domain.com, the solution is to create a vhost.conf file at:

Code:

/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/subdomains/staging/conf/vhost.conf

Source: http://kb.parallels.com/432


My vhost.conf file looks like this:

Code:

<Directory /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/subdomains/staging/httpdocs>
  <IfModule sapi_apache2.c>
    php_admin_value open_basedir none
  </IfModule>
  <IfModule mod_php5.c>
    php_admin_value open_basedir none
  </IfModule>
</Directory>

and then force Plesk to generate the apache config files for this domain again and restart. The exact command is:

Code:

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -u --vhost-name=domain.com

Source: http://www.vioan.ro/wp/2007/07/31/how-to...-in-plesk/

After all this, PHP will have permission to access the folders in the subdomain directory and will no longer return the error, so CI should work.