I know what I wrote above won’t work here. In my htaccess file it was correct and it worked – that is no syntax errors. It just didn’t turn off the warnings because the function didn’t call a valid file name just ‘/’ and it should have had more there.
My server runs php5
My host has a page on the issue of open_basedir
http://wiki.mediatemple.net/w/Securing_PHP_on_the_(gs)_Grid-Service
They had me add
Options +FollowSymLinks
php_value open_basedir /home/00000/domains/mydomain.com:/home/00000/data/tmp:/var/tmp:/tmp
to my htaccess file but the warnings still showed up
