How I set open_basedir for a domain on a Plesk server (9.2.2)

If you’ve gotten here than I’m going to assume you understand the security risks of what we’re doing here.

It took me a few goes as I’m still bumbling my way through Plesk, so I thought I’d share my successful attempt.  Remember to replace <your domain> with, er, your domain…

1. Open/create vhost.conf:

   vim /var/www/vhosts/<your domain>/conf/vhost.conf

2. Add the following rules:

   <Directory /var/www/vhosts/<your domain>/httpdocs>
   <IfModule sapi_apache2.c>
   php_admin_value open_basedir "/var/www/vhosts/about-australia.com/httpdocs:/tmp:<directory to open>"
   </IfModule>
   <IfModule mod_php5.c>
   php_admin_value open_basedir "/var/www/vhosts/about-australia.com/httpdocs:/tmp:<directory to open>"
   </IfModule>
   </Directory>

3. Reload configuration and restart httpd via Plesk:

   /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng --vhost-name=<your domain> -v -r

Hope it works for you…