[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by sduckie2k5

Sorry if this question has been asked already but I saw a message after the upgraded to 2.2.6 and although everything seems to be working fine, I wanted to know if this is something I should address:

Warning open_basedir is set to /home/usr/:usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp in your php installation.

Thankyou in advance ~D

If everything is working fine, there's no need to be concerned.

open_basedir is a php setting that restricts whereabouts scripts can look in your server's file system scripts. When correctly set, it's a very useful security aid. If the script tries to move outside the allowed area, it is not allowed to open files.

In your case, the restrictions are as follows:
everything in and under /home/usr/
ditto usr/lib/php
ditto /usr/local/lib/php
ditto /tmp

You need to be careful if you decide to set LDM's settings local_file_root and local_file_root_prefix, or upload_dir or thumbs_dir that you do not move outside these areas.