In order to run GOsa in PHP's safe mode, these changes in your php.ini have been tested: magic_quotes_qpc = On allow_url_fopen = No register_globals = Off safe_mode = On safe_mode_include_dir = "/usr/share/gosa:/var/spool/gosa" safe_mode_exec_dir = "/usr/lib/gosa" safe_mode_allowed_env_vars = PHP_,LANG open_basedir = "/etc/gosa:/var/spool/gosa:/var/cache/gosa:/usr/share/gosa:/tmp" include_path = ".:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/gosa:/var/spool/gosa:/usr/share/gosa/safe_bin" disable_functions = system, shell_exec, passthru, phpinfo, show_source