title: Drupal / ImageMagick Error: open_basedir restriction in effect
body: <p>I'm trying to use the ImageMagick toolkit in Drupal, but keep getting this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>warning: file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect. 
  File(/usr/bin/convert) is not within the allowed path(s): 
  (/var/www/vhosts/dev.mysite.com/dev2.mysite.com/drupal/:/tmp/) in 
  /var/www/vhosts/dev.mysite.com/dev2.mysite.com/drupal-6.22/includes/image.imagemagick.inc 
  on line 55.
  No file /usr/bin/convert could be found. PHP's open_basedir security restriction 
  is set to /var/www/vhosts/dev.mysite.com/dev2.mysite.com/drupal/:/tmp/, which 
  may be interfering with the attempts to locate ImageMagick.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've read many posts on Drupal forums and "around", and have tried various suggested solutions (setting my directory in Drupal to /sites/default/files/tmp, etc.), but so far, nothing has worked.  At this point, since I  do have access to php.ini, I was thinking I could edit it, but am wondering if editing it is the right way to go?   I'm concerned whether adding /usr/bin/convert to the allowed paths in php.ini is a security issue or if there's another way to get it to work?</p>