How do you configure VestaCP to recognize pear and not return an open_basedir error?

[bobmeetin]

I have a CentOS VestaCP installation and have been trying to get SMTP mail to work so that it can be used with various forms. I checked and pear is installed under /usr/share/pear. I found a guide to check if pear is installed correctly, https://pear.php.net/manual/en/installa ... ecking.php, which is helpful. I followed all the checks and up to including System.php it looked perfect. I enabled error logging. This fails:

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    require_once ("System.php"); // for pear

The errors:

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 Warning: require_once(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/share/pear/System.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/$my_account/web/$my_domain/public_html:/home/$my_account/tmp) in /home/$my_account/web/$my_domain/public_html/smtp/test-pear.php on line 34

    Warning: require_once(/usr/share/pear/System.php): failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /home/$my_account/web/$my_domain/public_html/smtp/test-pear.php on line 34

    Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'System.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /home/$my_account/web/$my_domain/public_html/smtp/test-pear.php on line 34

I added the following line to the file just to see and it did not help:

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    ini_set("include_path", '/usr/share/pear:' . ini_get("include_path") );

How would you fix this, get it to see the path? My technical skills are limited; please respond in layman terms.