Epub export failed

Exports
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When exporting EPUB files, I get message “Error: The export failed. See logs for more details.”

When I check the log file, following is the message

[Fri Jun 15 05:42:16.698234 2018] [:error] [pid 16738] [client 139.59.34.212:49310] PHP Warning: mkdir(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File() is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/admin/web/books.manarkeni.com/public_html:/home/admin/tmp) in /home/admin/web/books.manarkeni.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/pressbooks/inc/modules/export/class-export.php on line 350,

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open_basedir string: Limit the files that can be accessed by PHP to the specified directory-tree, including the file itself. This directive is NOT affected by whether Safe Mode is turned On or Off. When a script tries to access the filesystem, for example using include, or fopen(), the location of the file is checked. When the file is outside the specified directory-tree, PHP will refuse to access it.

http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.open-basedir

Configure your server.

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I did change the configuration and the problem still persists.

I could export the following files properly
PDF (for print)
PDF (for digital distribution)
XHTML
HTMLBook
Pressbooks XML
WordPress XML

But I get this error, when I export the following book type…
EPUB (for Nook, iBooks, Kobo etc.)
MOBI (for Kindle)
EPUB 3

Is it not all the exported files stored in single directory, if that is the case, how come some works and some does not work…

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Because those modules require the ability to create a temporary directory using this function (in this location):

http://php.net/manual/en/function.sys-get-temp-dir.php

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I am having some hard time to fix this…

When I export following I get the error message “Error: The export failed. See logs for more details.”
EPUB (for Nook, iBooks, Kobo etc.)
MOBI (for Kindle)
EPUB 3

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When I check the log file…This is the error details in the log file

[:error] [pid 2320] [client 139.59.34.212:54324] PHP Warning: tempnam(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/tmp) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/admin/web/books.manarkeni.com/public_html:/home/admin/tmp) in /home/admin/web/books.manarkeni.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/pressbooks/inc/modules/export/class-export.php on line 348, referer: http://books.manarkeni.com/avvaiyarkathai/wp-admin/admin.php?page=pb_export&export_error=true

When we check the server configuration, there is not any restriction for open_basedir. I am attaching you the basedir.stpl file content

This is the server configuration file content

root@cp:/usr/local/vesta/data/templates/web/apache2# less basedir.stpl
<VirtualHost %ip%:%web_ssl_port%>

ServerName %domain_idn%
%alias_string%
ServerAdmin %email%
DocumentRoot %sdocroot%
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ %home%/%user%/web/%domain%/cgi-bin/
Alias /vstats/ %home%/%user%/web/%domain%/stats/
Alias /error/ %home%/%user%/web/%domain%/document_errors/
#SuexecUserGroup %user% %group%
CustomLog /var/log/%web_system%/domains/%domain%.bytes bytes
CustomLog /var/log/%web_system%/domains/%domain%.log combined
ErrorLog /var/log/%web_system%/domains/%domain%.error.log
<Directory %sdocroot%>
    AllowOverride All
    SSLRequireSSL
    Options +Includes -Indexes +ExecCGI
    php_admin_value open_basedir %docroot%:%home%/%user%/tmp
    php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir %home%/%user%/tmp
    php_admin_value session.save_path %home%/%user%/tmp
    php_admin_value sendmail_path "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f info@%domain_idn%"
</Directory>
<Directory %home%/%user%/web/%domain%/stats>
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>
SSLEngine on
SSLVerifyClient none
SSLCertificateFile %ssl_crt%
SSLCertificateKeyFile %ssl_key%
%ssl_ca_str%SSLCertificateChainFile %ssl_ca%

<IfModule mod_ruid2.c>
    RMode config
    RUidGid %user% %group%
    RGroups www-data
</IfModule>
<IfModule itk.c>
    AssignUserID %user% %group%
</IfModule>

IncludeOptional %home%/%user%/conf/web/s%web_system%.%domain%.conf*

appreciate if you could guide with right solution.

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That’s an Apache config. That’s the wrong config.

Find your php.ini file:

PHP: The configuration file - Manual

Check if you are in safe mode. Turn this off.

http://php.net/manual/en/features.safe-mode.php

Check if you are running Suhosin. Uninstall.

https://suhosin.org/stories/index.html

Look for all the other settings previously discussed and set the correctly.

Restart your webserver. Create a test.php file with <?php phpinfo(); ?> then go to http://yoursite/test.php to verify that your settings are correct. Rinse and repeat.

PHP: phpinfo - Manual

Regards,

EDIT: Seen php_admin_value open_basedir %docroot%:%home%/%user%/tmp after submit. See next posts.

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If you want to override using an Apache config instead of modifying php.ini, read these documents:

PHP: How to change configuration settings - Manual
PHP: List of php.ini directives - Manual

Short version (although at this point I strongly recommend reading the docs I linked…)

Do:

php_value open_basedir none

Or change what you have and add :/tmp at the end. (where : is the seperator)

php_admin_value open_basedir %docroot%:%home%/%user%/tmp:/tmp

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PS: I feel you are copy/pasting error messages, config files, but not actually reading them. Each line in an error message and a config file matters. They are supposed to be read, not ignored as blobs of mystery text…

In your last message you say:

"When we check the server configuration, there is not any restriction for open_basedir. "

!!BUT!!

The error message says:

Warning: tempnam(): open_basedir restriction in effect.

And your config says:

php_admin_value open_basedir %docroot%:%home%/%user%/tmp

So what you are saying is obviously wrong. Please pay more attention. It’s not the community’s responsibility to be your sysadmin?

Regards,

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thank you @dac.chartrand for detailed guidance, I could fix this problem and it works fine.

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