new installation of cake: open_basedir restriction error

Problem: new installation of cake to a subfolder only. I get this error

Warning: file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/share/pear/cake/libs/controller/components/session.php) is not within the allowed path(s): …path… in /path/to/core/folder/cake/basics.php on line 854

Error occurs within the function fileExistsInPath in basics.php

Solution: change the fileExistsInPath function to:

function fileExistsInPath($file) {
$paths = explode(PATH_SEPARATOR, ini_get(‘include_path’));
// removing /usr/share/pear from the list of includes_path
array_shift($paths); //added
array_shift($paths); //added
// the rest goes here
}
Explanantion: In my conversation with one cake bakers, some server cannot find cake libs which we had included already bec it only sees the /usr/share/pear folder. So he (simreg in particular) removed the first 2paths in the include path to give way to our own cake lib paths.

This is not really the best solution, but this works for me now. I still have no idea why that happens. For now, I’l stick with that.

Any idea?