[SOLVED] Phabricator Arcanist has errors ini_set(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File() is not within the allowed path(s)

Phabricator Arcanist has errors ini_set(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File() is not within the allowed path(s)

I am running the latest Arch Linux

I have looked at topics like these:

Unlink Fails -> open_basedir issue Warning: unlink() [function.unlink]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File() is not within the allowed path(s):
open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/) is not within the allowed path(s):

Those suggest editing the php.ini, adding the directories I need onto open_basedir. I have tried commenting out open_basedir entirely and this works but I am worried about the security implications.

How do I find which file I need to add to open_basedir?

Currently I have:

open_basedir = /srv/http/:/home/:/tmp/:/usr/share/pear/:/usr/share/webapps/

Edit for people looking at this: I looked at a co-workers ubuntu ini file, and he has the open_basedir expression in there -- so it must be just poorly written (i.e. does not support safe operations)

Solution

Many users over the years tried to install Phabricator on broken popular hosting environments, so a limitation was introduced to reduce the amount of spammy bug reports from these users:

https://we.phorge.it/rP105be01d5f74f4fdff39801bd7551b758c350eef

In short, no. Open Basedir is not supported.

There is a Task about that topic, opened in 2021, and set to very minimum priority:

https://we.phorge.it/T15065

So I can only suggest to disable that limitation for the virtualhost of your Phabricator in the meanwhile. Or, join that Task and share your positive experience with that limitation enabled, and how you fixed the related problems.