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This is the second time I've run into this problem. I opted not to post about it the first time, because the solution was so simple it was kind of silly. But lo-and-behold – I hit it again and forgot what the solution was anyway.

I know there can be more than one thing that causes that "open_basedir restriction in effect" error – but in my case it was because:

1) I was moving a wordpress site to another location (usually a subdomain of a live site so I could set it up as a "test area")
2) In the settings page, I had specified a different path for uploads (this is done on the "miscellaneous" settings page). This directory was actually OUTSIDE of the wordpress directory, which means I had to use the full server path to point to my custom uploads directory…

So I copied over the files to the test area, copied the database to the test database, changed the domain to the test domain using this method. But if you've specified a path for uploads on that miscellaneous page – you'll need to log in once everything is all set up and change the path there too to the new one pointed at the new location.

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