[Steven Zahm]

@ Paul

The open_basedir issue is being caused by your web hosts configuration. The solution I gave in this post will fix the issue.

The specific files you’ll need to delete are:

It is just a simple text file so it is safe to delete.
../wp-content/plugins/connections/templates/~README.txt/

These are security related, used to prevent public access. It is a legacy folder that is no longer used, as of version 8.1, so they’re safe to delete.
../wp-content/connections_templates/.htaccess
../wp-content/connections_templates/index.php