# Sage looking for /vendor folder in site root, not theme root

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/sage-looking-for-vendor-folder-in-site-root-not-theme-root/25685
**Category:** sage
**Tags:** kinsta, sage10
**Created:** 2023-07-18T14:19:54Z
**Posts:** 3

## Post 1 by @Cornerstone_DM — 2023-07-18T14:19:55Z

We have uploaded a dev site to Kinsta and seeing this error on multiple installs.

```
is_file(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/www/mydomain/vendor/composer/installed.json) is not within the allowed path(s): (/www/mydomain/public:/www/mydomain/mysqleditor:/www/mydomain/web:/www/mydomain/deploy:/www/mydomain/deployment:/www/mydomain/deployments:/usr/share:/tmp)
```

It seems that vendor is being looked at in the site root ie. the /public/ folder, rather than in the theme root.

Anyone experienced this before on Kinsta and if there is a way to set the /vendor/ location somewhere to point to the theme directory?

We’re tried adding a path in PHP.ini but had no effect,

Any help will be appreciated.

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## Post 2 by @Cornerstone_DM — 2023-07-19T13:34:22Z

So if anyone needs the solution to this, you need to upgrade Acorn.

Or you can make the change in:

`/vendor/roots/acorn/src/Roots/Acorn/Application.php`

~line 269 (which the later versions of Acorn already include):

```
->filter(function ($path) use ($files) {
                    // return $files->isFile("{$path}/vendor/composer/installed.json")
                    // && $files->isFile("{$path}/composer.json");
                    return @$files->isFile("{$path}/vendor/composer/installed.json")
                    && @$files->isFile("{$path}/composer.json");
                })
```

Hope this helps,

Phil

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## Post 3 by @theflyingmonkeyman — 2023-08-17T15:51:34Z

Let me just add a few keywords here for people having the same problem as I did.  
Ultimately this thread pointed me in the right direction. THANKS!

This issue is relevant for me since I’m working on Kinsta and have a restricted open\_basedir variable. And roots acorn seems to look for the installed.json config file in the wrong ( **restriced!** ) directory.

Which is causing the following error message in my logs:  
`FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Warning: is_file(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/www/mywebsite_dir/vendor/composer/installed.json ) is not within the allowed path(s): (...`

For detailed instructions on how to update acorn:  
[Guide for Updating roots/acorn v2 to v3](https://roots.io/acorn/docs/upgrading-acorn/)