I have been trying to remove the open_basedir directive from my php configuration to allow seamless CURL operation in my server (Plesk based).

As the first step, I edited the /etc/php.ini file and set the directive to none. It made the master value for open_basedir to none. But even if, the local value is set and was causing enough trouble.

I googled it, carried out a few methods, but nothing worked. The last try got me the result I needed:

1. Created a new httpd.conf file in my domains conf folder: /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.org/conf

2. Put the following lines there:

<Directory /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.org/httpdocs>
php_admin_value open_basedir "none"
</Directory>


3. Updated Plesk configuration: # /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -v -a

4. Restarted apache: apachectl restart

5. Voila!

I hope this helps somebody out there.