Vestacp is a great free web panel https://vestacp.com/
When you install it from scrath through the installation found here: https://vestacp.com/#install
all looks good, but when you access PHPMYADMIN, you get errors like:
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Warning in ./libraries/Util.class.php#516
file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(doc/html/index.html) is not within the allowed path(s): (/usr/share/phpmyadmin/:/etc/phpmyadmin/:/var/lib/phpmyadmin/:/usr/share/php/php-gettext)
Backtrace
./libraries/Util.class.php#516: file_exists(string ‘doc/html/index.html’)
./libraries/Util.class.php#540: PMA_Util::getDocuLink(
string ‘index’,
string ”,
)
./libraries/plugins/auth/AuthenticationCookie.class.php#171: PMA_Util::showDocu(string ‘index’)
./libraries/common.inc.php#872: AuthenticationCookie->auth()
./index.php#12: require_once(./libraries/common.inc.php)
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They have done a script that should fix phpmyadmin issues, and many other things (please run it first): https://forum.vestacp.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=10307
But the error above remains, so I fixed it with this:
nano /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf
Find this line:
php_admin_value open_basedir /usr/share/phpmyadmin/:/etc/phpmyadmin/:/var/lib/phpmyadmin/:/usr/share/php/php-gettext
Add /usr/share/doc to it, so it looks like this:
php_admin_value open_basedir /usr/share/phpmyadmin/:/etc/phpmyadmin/:/var/lib/phpmyadmin/:/usr/share/php/php-gettext:/usr/share/doc
Save and do “service apache2 restart”
Solved 🙂
REMEMBER: Run EVERYTHING with ROOT, SUDO is not near enough 🙂