Try this on for size. This doesn't make any sense.

[toolcrazy]

I was able to get by the base_directory_restriction error with the cache. I took the entire path for my server included a tmp directory in my root. And put it in the Admin -> Configuration -> Cache. That got rid of the error message.

 

Now to what doesn't make sense:

 

In Admin -> Add products. I can upload only the small image. If I try and upload a big image, I get that base_directory_restriction error. But if I only upload a small image, it works perfectly. Does anybody have any idea how to work around this and why it does it? I understand the safe mode thing with PHP and why it is set this way. My thoughts is there is a file size restriction with http upload set on my server. I also know I could upload the big image via FTP and just ignore the error message. Any thoughts?

[mattice]

does the big image get stored in a different dir?

[toolcrazy]

No, If you ftp the image, it shows up in the popup box. And everthing in the cataloge work great. This did cross my mind. but, thanks for the reply.

[toolcrazy]

OOPS, forgot - I ftp it to catalog/images directory, and it works fine.

[toolcrazy]

Anybody else have any Ideas?