[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by dkny

Hi
first off I love your product, it's great and have been using it for a year on 3.6.

I upgraded my forum over the weekend and uploaded your product to the latest version. I cant get it to work though, in settings it under where my files are stored (which I didn't change), it gives me the following error:

upload_dir : /forum/uploads/99/
Cannot access or create directory /forum/uploads/99/ [/forum/uploads/99/ not within permitted open_basedir /home/ncc: /usr/lib/php: /usr/local/lib/php: /tmp]

From the look of your error message, you've got the LDM admin setting *local_file_root* turned off (i.e. store files outside the web directory), and your web server has open_basedir set, so that PHP is only allowed to access files in the named directories. The message says that your upload directory is not within the space allowed by open_basedir.

If everything was working before and none of these settings have changed, I find that strange.

I imagine that you mean to have *local_file_root* turned on (presumably you want to store your uploads in a subdirectory of your forums directory). Easiest approach is
* clear the upload directory and save the settings
* set local_file_root on and save the settings
* reset the upload directory