I can no longer upgrade or install plug-ins or themes

  • Okay, https://kitschchaos.com/blog.html. I’ve been using Word Press, blogging regularly, enjoying many nice plug-ins and growing my site’s exposure and page rank (yay -some page rank!).

    For the past week or two I’ve been unable to test new plug-ins or upgrade existing ones. I’m a Linux Newbie, and know not php. It looks to me like a permission issue, but cmoding (with an ftp client) various files and directories has not helped.

    At this point it seems my installation is broken. I can’t upgrade or install manually or automatically. I don’t know if the issue is a Word Press issue or a server administration issue.

    I’d simple wipe the installation and start again were it not for several moths of work writing blog entries that people keep visiting again and again regularly. How can I back up my log entries for a new installation should I need to do that?

    The WordPress I’m working with was automatically installed with Fantastico.

    Here’s the code my failed upgrade to a WordPress plug-in generated.

    Warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/intrepr/tmp//1239368315) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/kitschc/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/kitschc/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 1924

    Warning: touch() [function.touch]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/intrepr/tmp/1239368315) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/kitschc/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/kitschc/public_html/blog/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 174

    Warning: fileowner() [function.fileowner]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/intrepr/tmp/1239368315) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/kitschc/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/kitschc/public_html/blog/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 628

    Warning: unlink() [function.unlink]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/intrepr/tmp/1239368315) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/kitschc/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/kitschc/public_html/blog/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 630

    Warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/intrepr/tmp//1239368315) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/kitschc/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/kitschc/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 1924

    Warning: touch() [function.touch]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/intrepr/tmp/1239368315) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/kitschc/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/kitschc/public_html/blog/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 174

    Warning: fileowner() [function.fileowner]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/intrepr/tmp/1239368315) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/kitschc/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/kitschc/public_html/blog/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 628

    Warning: unlink() [function.unlink]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/intrepr/tmp/1239368315) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/kitschc/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/kitschc/public_html/blog/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 630
    Upgrade Plugin

    Warning: ftp_rawlist() [function.ftp-rawlist]: Unable to create temporary file. Check permissions in temporary files directory. in /home/kitschc/public_html/blog/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ftpext.php on line 203

    Unable to locate WordPress Plugin directory.

    Plugin upgrade Failed

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  • open_basedir restriction in effect

    you may need to speak with your host about this as the tmp path is not within allowed paths

    try adding this to your wp-config.php right before the closing ?>

    putenv('TMPDIR='.ini_get('upload_tmp_dir') );
    should work if allowed by host

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