By martintenhove on

I have installed drupal 6.4 on my new host. Installation went oke, when I finish I get to the first frontpage but in the top i have this warning:

warning: tempnam() [function.tempnam]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/tmp) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/vpz/:/tmp/:/var/www/:/usr/local/lib/php/:/etc/virtual/) in /home/vpz/domains/vpzschaatsteam.nl/public_html/includes/file.inc on line 756.
Het bestand kon niet aangemaakt worden.
warning: tempnam() [function.tempnam]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/tmp) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/vpz/:/tmp/:/var/www/:/usr/local/lib/php/:/etc/virtual/) in /home/vpz/domains/vpzschaatsteam.nl/public_html/includes/file.inc on line 756.
Het bestand kon niet aangemaakt worden.

The last line is Dutch for: The file cannot be created.

When I click any link on the frontpage (by example: module list) I get a new screen with acces denied and also the above warning. I can also login again on this new screen (weird layout), but that's doesn't help a thing.

I don't get it. The installation went oke but I cannot do anything. Has it something to do with PHP safe mode?

Who can help me?

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martintenhove’s picture

martintenhove commented

When I click on a link and get the new screen with the warning it also says at the bottum:

You don't have the rights to acces this page.

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patch-works commented

Hallo,

I had the same error message after a difficult update (due to a bad management of the restore function of my hosting)

It was solved in two steps (thanks to various forums)

- in admin/site management/file system check the path for tmp folder (in my case, it was not congruent with the path to the files folder)
- even after correction, the message stays => delete the current tmp folder via ftp, and in admin, save config again: a correct folder is created

I get a second error message regarding the sites/default/languages folder where a file is not correct
- same solution: I delete the folder and save config again: no more error message

hope it helps

Groetens

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aleagi commented

Hi, thanks for your answer! It worked really nice!

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zoppi commented

Your solution did not work for me because the folder chosen by drupal as temporary folder is not deletable by me, only by an admin which I am not.

What worked for me is to use one of the folders mentioned as "within allowed paths" in the error message. It still comes up with a message like "Folder XYZ does not exist" (though it does), but the error for tempnam does not appear any longer.

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sandino commented

Thank you!

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playfulwolf commented

and +1 from me, another very related problem ;)

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hanief84 commented

http://hanief.blogspot.com/2010/02/drupal-warning-tempnam-functiontempna...

I'm on Drupal 6.15

DigitalWheelie’s picture

DigitalWheelie commented

Your detailed images REALLY helped me!
Thank you!

--Ted

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kettari commented

Your post helped me a lot. Thank you!

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danielhol commented

Great answer! Thanks a bunch. Worked great for me.

knalstaaf’s picture

knalstaaf commented

Works like a charm, patch-works. Thank you.

In our case PHP Safe Mode had to be disabled as well.

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satter9 commented

That solution worked well! Somehow the tmp folder magically disappeared from the website. Once created again in ftp then saved the error messages were still there. Once I refreshed they went away and have not returned.

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keremito commented

Hello,

Thanks a lot! I've transfered my drupal 7 site to another domain, and got the same message. Configuring the path of tmp and flushing the cache solved the problem.

Best wishes..

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SaschaBerlin commented

Worked for me, thanks!