drush open_basedir restriction in effect on media temple

Question

I'm using drush on mediatemple grid service. I think i've got setup drush correctly. At least to my knowledge. I've been able to use it; but with nagging errors/warnings each time.

And whenever i invoke drush i get these errors:

The following restricted PHP modes have non-empty values: check your configuration settings in /usr/local/php-5.2.14/etc/php.ini or in your drush.ini file

Anyone have any clues how to rectify this?

Answer 1

Setting an alias for drush allowed me to fix this issue:

alias drush='/usr/bin/php5 -c /home/000000/etc/drush.ini ~/bin/drush/drush.php'

Answer 2

drush topic docs-ini-files

That command tells more about creating a drush.ini file. In it, you want to remove the listed restrictions (you didn't provide them).

Answer 3

Because making an alias for drush.php is not covered in drush-5.x Readme file. A better solution is to copy the server's default configuration php.ini file to $HOME/.drush or to /etc/drush.

Then, edit it to set open_basedir to no value and add any other custom configuration for crush.

Sample of drush specific php.ini file:

# Drush configuration
open_basedir=
safe_mode=
disable_functions=
disable_classes=
magic_quotes_gpc=

Hope this helps.