Error fopen(): SAFE MODE Restriction after install Drupal 6

The short answer is to disable PHP's "safe mode", if you can. If you can't, you will always have some problem or another.

See http://php.net/manual/en/features.safe-mode.php
quote: "Warning: This feature has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 5.3.0. Relying on this feature is highly discouraged."

The long answer:
"The script (Drupal) whose uid is 10023 (owned by you, your user ID) is not allowed to access /tmp/filebCkCSE (files in the temp directory) owned by uid 48 (because it is owned by user 'apache' or 'www-data')". This could also happen to your uploaded "files" directory, not only to "tmp".

With safe mode a script owned by someone can't access files owned by someone else, no matter how you set the permissions.

Looking for workarounds:
- You could try to make everything be owned by you (your own "files" directory, your own "tmp" directory). On most server configurations this won't work, because Drupal writes files as the apache user, and then safe mode wouldn't allow Drupal to access the files that it wrote itself. Maybe it could work on servers running suexec, where Drupal writes files "in your name".

- You could try to make Drupal itself be owned by the apache user, for example by having a php script write all the installed Drupal files (or ask your host to chown them). That might work, but it is really inconvenient. To FTP anything you would need to make everything writable by all (777).

So, ditch the safe mode or switch hosts.

Hi,

There's a handbook page - http://drupal.org/node/82223 - about how to add a new 'drupal' unix user and group to work around the safe mode restriction. You'll need shell access to the server, and will need to be familiar with using the command line, but the setup works for me.

Please, ask your support team turn off SAFE MODE for your hosting.
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