Many howtos on Joomla security talk about moving configuration.php outside the web (public) folder. When I refer to the new location via absolute path or other ways I tried (/../foldername), the site can't see the file. I've had to resort to moving the file to a sub-folder of the public folder which isn't what I would like. Is there a way to accomplish what I want to do? Running ISPConfig 3 on Ubuntu 10.04 howtoforge perfect server.
Did you add the new directory to the PHP open_basedir field on the Options tab of your web site in ISPConfig?