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How do I disable open basedir in Plesk?

Art. Nr: 44  |  Rating: 4/5 from 395 votes  |  Last Updated: Wed, Feb 22, 2012
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There are some applications that require open_basedir be disabled on your Plesk VPS. This is a quick tutorial on how you can disable open_basedir on your Plesk VPS quickly and effectively. Please follow the outlined steps below to disable open_basedir:

  1. Login to SSH on your Plesk VPS (This information will be contained within your welcome email)
  2. Edit the file "/var/www/vhosts/<your domain>/conf/vhost.conf"
  3. Input the following content into vhost.conf file on your Plesk VPS:

    <Directory /var/www/vhosts/@domain_name@/httpdocs>
    php_admin_value open_basedir none
    </Directory>

  4. Once that's imported, Save and exit.
  5. Then run the following command in shell on your Plesk VPS:

    /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -v –a

The above will then disable open_basedir on your Plesk VPS and you are done.

Comments

Good anti-hack prevention way using Plesk based web hosting.

Posted by matt - Mon, Jul 16th, 2012 9:35 AM

A good technique for Plesk based web hosting servers to avoid customers to steal bandwidth.

Posted by Krader - Thu, Jun 7th, 2012 9:59 AM

Seems Plesk is a lot more secure hosting control panel thatn its competitor cPanel :)

Posted by randy6 - Fri, May 18th, 2012 10:01 AM

Very helpful anti-hacker technique for all Plesk based web hosting types.

Posted by Valerie - Mon, May 7th, 2012 9:05 AM

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