HTML Include files? What Gives?

Anon

I am trying to use html files as includes and I get an error message. - here is the error - please give me a clue - thanks.

Warning: Failed opening \'/home2/lanburn/public_html/hello.html\' for inclusion (include_path=\'.:/usr/local/lib/php\') in /home2/lanburn/public_html/reg/main_dsp031701a.php on line 23

deckrdx

What does the include statement look like?

Does the user that the web server run as have permission to the directory/file you are trying to include?

marcobr

Hi !!!

Try to use the full path to this file.

eg: include("/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/hello.html");

No guarantees !

Regards,

marcoBR

dies_irae

I dont think you can include from the basepath,
use:
<? include("hello.html"); ?>
or:
<? include("http://somesite.com/filename.html"); ?>

Anon

<? include("hello.html"); ?>

this works thanks.

deckrdx

... base filesystem path. Pretty much everything I do, I include from base filesystem path so if I'm running the script from a different directory, I don't have to remember the relational path.

As for Tom_G's problem, its weird that the script giving the error is in the reg directory, but its asking for the file in the public_html directory. My thought would be that he is running the script from the public_html directory, including the main_dsp031701a.php file into that script, thus the path is public_html, but the hello.php resides in the reg directory, and thus can't find the hello file.

If you can't follow that (which I don't blame you), lets try a diagram....

public_html
|
|-executing_script.php
|
-reg
|-main_dsp031701a.php
-hello.html

(hope this looks right after being posted).

Anyway if the 'executing_script.php' was running and included 'main_dsp031701a.php', and 'main_dsp031701a.php' included 'hello.html', I could see the error happening.

The other reason again would be making sure the web server user (usually nobody) has read privelleges to the 'hello.html'.