If you receive any of the following errors, they are being caused by the web host’s server configuration for open_basedir. You should contact them in order to fix the configuration.
Warning: is_dir() [function.is-dir]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/[SERVER PATH]/wp-content/plugins/connections/templates/~README.txt/) is not within the allowed path(s): (/[SERVER PATH]) in /[SERVER PATH]/wp-content/plugins/connections/includes/template/class.template-api.php on line n
Warning: is_dir() [function.is-dir]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/[SERVER PATH]/wp-content/connections_templates/index.php/) is not within the allowed path(s): (/[SERVER PATH]) in /[SERVER PATH]/wp-content/plugins/connections/includes/template/class.template-api.php on line n
Warning: is_dir() [function.is-dir]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/[SERVER PATH]/wp-content/connections_templates/.htaccess/) is not within the allowed path(s): (/[SERVER PATH]) in /[SERVER PATH]/wp-content/plugins/connections/includes/template/class.template-api.php on line n
Alternative, you can safely delete these three files. Here are more details about what these three files contains and why they are present.
The index.php file only contains the following:
<?php // Silence is golden.
The .htaccess file only contains the following:
Options -Indexes
Both of these are added to the folder for the expressed purpose of make the folder not directly accessible to random site visitors for security reasons. So removing them, could provide access to those files within this folder (if there are any at all).
The ~README.txt contains instructions on where to move the template files so changes can be made to them in an update safe manner.