Text file being writen to the wrong directory.

Hi, I've been having problems writing to a text file on my server. I am using php to write the file. I have created a directory above my document root and I want to store a cache file in there. The problem I am having is that the file is still being writen to the document root even though I have defined the absolute path to where the file is supposed to go. I have no idea why this would happen. The php script can find the file but can't open it or read it. The permissions on the file are 775.

rehat linux.
apache 2.0.52
php 5.1.2

Are you absolutely positive the php script has the exact path 100% correct, no typos or anything?

I just double checked and it is perfect. Tried cat -n "path to file file" and it read the file. (I placed a copy of the file in there to see if I could read it from the script.)

Ok I think I 've found what is causing the problem. "open_basedir restriction in effect". How do I fix this?

Beats me! My guess would be to find that in your httpd.conf file or whatever it is called and stick a # in front of that line, then restart the httpd service.

I just submitted a support ticket so we'll see if my hosting company can fix this for me. Thanks for the help.

They probably won't if you're on a shared host. The option (defined in /etc/php.ini) is there for security reasons.

Without getting too technical, it stops scripts from one account from interfering with another account\ on the same server.

I have a dedicated server. They're looking into it.