Quiz

Hi,
I've ran into a problem while importing test questions from a file on our new linux server with this message:

"Cannot read import file (or file is empty)" followed by
"An error occurred during import processing ".

So I turned the debugging on and got more:

Warning: is_readable() [function.is-readable]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/var/www/localhost/htdocs/tmp/phpFx...) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/moodedirroot) in /var/www/moodedirroot/question/format.php on line 303

First thing I do in such situations is moodle the solution (which is like google it but better). I didn't find any exact solution (that's why i write this actually) although I found some hints. The real problem and following solution was as simple as this:

In our apache setting (httpd.conf file) is an alias for each web application. In the alias for moodle there was a redefinition for open_basedir php directive but no redefinition for upload_tmp_dir. It's default value is /var/www/localhost/htdocs/tmp/ which works fine for the localhost web apps. So I had to redefine the upload_tmp_dir directive to somewhere under /moodledirroot. You cen see the final piece of httpd.conf code here:

<Location /moodledirroot>
...
php_admin_value open_basedir "/var/www/moodledirroot"
php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir "/var/www/moodledirroot/data/temp"
...
</Location>

Note: I believe, this configuration mistake could have popped up somewhere else too and it has in the end nothing to do with quiz. Uploading files into courses worked fine though.