Title: admin-ajax.php and open_basedir issues
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# admin-ajax.php and open_basedir issues

 *  Resolved [mauricioarango](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mauricioarango/)
 * (@mauricioarango)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-and-open_basedir-issues/)
 * Recently I started having some issues in the back end of wordpress.
 * I noticed those problems after doing two changes to the back end (I’m not sure
   in what order these 2 changes were made):
    1. I upgraded to wordpress 3.6 (from
   3.5) 2. I updated the domain name (the server is the same).
 * The problems I’m experiencing are:
 * 1. admin-ajax.php is not loading.
    In firebug I can see the url requested is 
   wrong (_[http://wpinstall/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php](http://wpinstall/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php)_).
   It should be something like (_[http://www.mysite.com/wpinstall/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php](http://www.mysite.com/wpinstall/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php)_)
 * As you can image this ends up affecting lots of the back end functionality.
 * 2. In the Permalinks Settings page I see this error:
    `Warning: is_writable():
   open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/) is not within the allowed path(s):(/
   chroot:/home:/tmp:/dev/shm:/usr/share/pear) in /chroot/home/aerostud/aerostudios.
   com/html/tob/wp-admin/options-permalink.php on line 130 Warning: is_writable():
   open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/) is not within the allowed path(s):(/
   chroot:/home:/tmp:/dev/shm:/usr/share/pear) in /chroot/home/aerostud/aerostudios.
   com/html/tob/wp-admin/includes/misc.php on line 133`
 * I would appreciate any leads on how to solve these issues. Thank you so much.

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 *  Thread Starter [mauricioarango](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mauricioarango/)
 * (@mauricioarango)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-and-open_basedir-issues/#post-4073006)
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 *  Thread Starter [mauricioarango](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mauricioarango/)
 * (@mauricioarango)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-and-open_basedir-issues/#post-4073007)
 * I’m having trouble posting a follow up to this issue.
 * I hope this helps anyone in the future that is having the same predicament I 
   had.
 * After my admin turned open_basedir in the the server php settings all of this
   issues quietly went away.

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 * [admin-ajax.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin-ajax-php/)
 * [open_basedir](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/open_basedir/)

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 * Last reply from: [mauricioarango](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mauricioarango/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-and-open_basedir-issues/#post-4073007)
 * Status: resolved

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