Title: open_basedir Problem
Last modified: March 18, 2018

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# open_basedir Problem

 *  [drdisk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drdisk/)
 * (@drdisk)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/open_basedir-problem-3/)
 * Hi all,
 * w3tc works very fine unless I enable minify for css.
 * > [Sun Mar 18 12:58:54.114985 2018] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 21398:tid 139908945499904][
   > client 79.212.61.251:7604] AH01071: Got error ‘PHP message: PHP Warning: realpath():
   > open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/) is not within the allowed path(
   > s): (/var/www/vhosts/xxxxxxxxx/htdocs:/var/www/vhosts/xxxxxxxxx/tmp:/usr/share:/
   > usr/local/share/php) in /var/www/vhosts/xxxxxxxxx/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/
   > w3-total-cache/Util_Environment.php on line 562\n’, referer: [https://xxxxxxxxx/](https://xxxxxxxxx/)
 * My problem is that I can’t disable the open_basedir restrictions due to security
   reasons.
    Is there an easy way to fix that problem?

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/open_basedir-problem-3/)
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