I noticed that this "bug" is already to be found in the bug database. This is exactly how I'm experiencing it: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=37556 In that report they link the reader to http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=30188 which is also applicable. Although I can't understand the last answer: Obviously PHP cannot resolve "/home/wejn/x/docs1/html/y" as it even doesn't exist, so it compares non-existing "/home/wejn/x/docs1/html/y" to "/home/wejn/x/docs/html/" and reports that they aren't the same. This would mean that every file that doesn't exist does not lie within any open_basedir at all? How can file_exists() be useful if that's the case? And why is it only the case if the symbolic link is used? They claim this isn't a bug but it still doesn't work as I would expect it to do. -Patrik -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php