Answers.Body: <p>Take a look under Administer/System Settings/Directories. It sounds like your directory for Images may be incorrect, or not yet defined.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: I'm getting the error again in 4.6.8. The images directory is defined and accessible
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Body: <p>Warning: file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/share/doc/php-tcpdf/examples/images/) is not within the allowed path(s): (/nhldata/631/106631/data/web:/usr/local/php55/share/pear:/var/tmp/php:/tmp:/usr/local/php55/lib64) in /nhldata/631/106631/data/web/predigerforum/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm/packages/tcpdf/tcpdf_autoconfig.php on line 96</p>
  
  <p>I got this message when I initially installed too. The only workaround seemed to be to insert "@" before the file_exists calls in the referenced PHP files...</p>
  
  <p>There must be some kind of configuration error or permissioning problem that I could not find?</p>
  
  <p>I'm running civiCRM 4.6.2 under the latest Wordpress</p>
  
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Title: How do I correct the fault causing "file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect"
ThreadText: # How do I correct the fault causing "file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect"
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-05-10)
  
  Warning: file\_exists(): open\_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/share/doc/php-tcpdf/examples/images/) is not within the allowed path(s): (/nhldata/631/106631/data/web:/usr/local/php55/share/pear:/var/tmp/php:/tmp:/usr/local/php55/lib64) in /nhldata/631/106631/data/web/predigerforum/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm/packages/tcpdf/tcpdf\_autoconfig.php on line 96
  
  I got this message when I initially installed too. The only workaround seemed to be to insert "@" before the file\_exists calls in the referenced PHP files...
  
  There must be some kind of configuration error or permissioning problem that I could not find?
  
  I'm running civiCRM 4.6.2 under the latest Wordpress
  
  **Tags:** wordpress
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-05-10. Score: 3
  
  Take a look under Administer/System Settings/Directories. It sounds like your directory for Images may be incorrect, or not yet defined.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: I'm getting the error again in 4.6.8. The images directory is defined and accessible  
  
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