The final wp move issue resolved..

After moving hosting company’s the one major wordpress issue i was having was the fact that i could no upload media to the site i was getting a error about ‘open-basedir restriction’. There are multiple pages about this issue but my resolution was made slightly harder because i am running plesk. This is the way I resolved the issue ( in dummy terms because that’s what i needed. )

1 ) Gain root access to your vps via ssh.

ssh root@<yourdomain.com>

2 )  Change directory to you conf folder for your domain

cd /var/www/vhosts/<yourdomain>/conf/

3 ) create / edit your vhost.conf file

nano vhost.conf

4 ) Add the following lines to the vhost.conf file. What this is doing is turning off php safe mode and also disabling open-basedir restriction. I have no idea the security implication of this I will look into that later. For now it works..

<Directory /var/www/vhosts/<yourdomain>/httpdocs>
php_admin_value safe_mode off
php_admin_value open_basedir none
</Directory>

5 ) Save the file

ctrl-x then Y

6 ) Rebuild your domain config

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -u --vhost-name=<yourdomain>

7 ) restart apatche

apache2ctl  restart

8 ) I also had to check that the path in Misc settings of wordpress was correct (I Just changed it to default.

9 ) Test and cross fingers.

I got this working thanks to these links and sites

http://www.mydigitallife.info – This gave me a general overview of what i was doing but did not work fully for me.

Parallels forum post with link to this site

And finally this site for the misc setting in wordpress