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Oops, I forgot this thread was still hanging about unresolved. A post on WP-Hackers prompted me to revisit.

I resolved the problem by changing host but that’s far from ideal.

The post on WP-Hackers may shed further light. The OP had the same problem and a reply from Noel Jackson said the following:

I’ve experienced issues like this with Solaris 10. Some unixes treat getcwd() and realpath() differently than how they should be (really a PHP problem).

What I did to fix it was chmod +x anything anything in the webroot path.

from php.net:

On some Unix variants, getcwd() will return FALSE if any one of the parent directories does not have the readable or search mode set, even if the current directory does. See chmod() for more information on modes and permissions.

Maybe that’s the culprit.

My original host used Solaris 10 on a Sun box so it may be relevant although it’s too late for me to confirm it now. I’m posting this just in case it helps others with a similar problem.

Hi, Michael. It works fine on my local machine (Win XP, XAMPP, etc) and on another commercial host I use. The problem host is a Sun box and I spent last night working with my hosting admin (a true hero!) trying out various fixes but to no avail so far. We’ll continue later on today (host is nine hours time difference to me) and report back if we get some success.