title: Magento 1.8 cant upgrade to 1.9
body: <p>Currently using Magento version 1.8.1.0, i am trying to upgrade to the latest version - ver 1.9.0.1 - Added May 16, 2014. 
  Cache is disabled, Compilation is disabled. When i check for upgrades in Magento Connect it shows the same 1.8 version files and says i allready have the latest version. </p>
  
  <p>And even if I try to use community/mage_all_latest I get the same result. I wasnt able to find anything that could help me so i am asking for any clue that might point me to a way to fix this.</p>
  
  <p>Logging shows this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>2014-06-16T22:24:59+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: curl_setopt() [&lt;a href='function.curl-setopt'&gt;function.curl-setopt&lt;/a&gt;]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when safe_mode is enabled or an open_basedir is set  in /home/package/public_html/xxx/downloader/lib/Mage/HTTP/Client/Curl.php on line 529
  
  2014-06-16T22:25:01+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: is_file() [&lt;a href='function.is-file'&gt;function.is-file&lt;/a&gt;]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(var/cookie) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/package:/usr/lib/php:/usr/php4/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/php4/lib/php:/tmp)  in /home/magentop/public_html/xxx/downloader/lib/Mage/HTTP/Client/Curl.php on line 157
  </code></pre>