failed to open stream: no such file or directory errors

marcnyc

Hi, can somebody help me make sense of these errors I get:

Warning: main(/chaindlk.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/memoryman/Sites/ChainDLK.org/httpdocs/interviews/admin_NEW/insert.php on line 9

Warning: main(): Failed opening '/chaindlk.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /Users/memoryman/Sites/ChainDLK.org/httpdocs/interviews/admin_NEW/insert.php on line 9

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: chaindlk_head_tag() in /Users/memoryman/Sites/ChainDLK.org/httpdocs/interviews/admin_NEW/insert.php on line 10

I am on OS X 10.3 and I am trying to locally open some files to work on them. They do work remotely (on the server) and I get no errors when they are uploaded. The file chaindlk.php which I am trying to include insde the file insert.php is in the /Sites/ChainDLK.org/httpdocs/ folder.

onion2k

/chaindlk.php means it'll look for chaindlk.php in the root directory of the server. Try it without the /.

marcnyc

I had already tried that too... I moved all the files of the site I am working on in the root folder (/Sites/ - that is the root, isn't?) and the problem persists

marcnyc

I have also tried moving all files in /Library/Web Server/Documents (which is where the index files of Apache are - those which say 'if you see this page it means Apache is working') but that didn't work either.

I have looked at the httpd.conf file and I see this:

DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your

documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but

symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.

#
DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents"

Is it correct to assume this is what I need to change? Can I change it to anything I want without messing things up? Will everything still work?

Is there no way to be able to work on different websites with different roots at the same time, so as to mimic working on different remote servers?

What are the symbolic links and aliases mentioned in the commented part?

Arc

That error simply means that the file is not in the directory you specified. You are using the wrong path to the file.

marcnyc

well all my paths work on the remote server, and they are of the type:

$DOCUMENT_ROOT.'/file.inc';

acey

change permission of your files , usually fixes that

marcnyc

What do you mean with that? What should I do exactly?

marcnyc

Ok, I made a test:

I created a file called index.php that contains this line <? include("test.inc"); ?>.
Then I created a file called test.inc that contains the word "test".
I put both files in the /Sites/ folder and accessed the folder by typing http://localhost/~myusername in the browser
Everything works nice. I see the word test.

Then I opened the file index.php and modified the line into: <? include($DOCUMENT_ROOT."test.inc"); ?>. I opened the browser and pointed it to http://localhost/~myusername/
Everything works nice. I see the word test again.

So, then I created a folder called test and inside that folder I put the modified file called index.php and left the file test.inc where it is, so now I have this directory structure:

/Sites/test.inc
/Sites/test/index.php

Now if I point the browser to http://localhost/~myusername/ I get these errors:
Warning: main(test.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/memoryman/Sites/test/index.php on line 1
Warning: main(): Failed opening 'test.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /Users/memoryman/Sites/test/index.php on line 1

So my conclusion is, somehow in Mac every folder is considered the root folder so $DOCUMENT_ROOT always refers to the folder where the file is launched from, which is not a normal behaviour, considering that for years on a server if the root was:
/
and a file was in:
/folder/
I could include a file inside the root using include($DOCUMENT_ROOT."filename.inc");

How can I address this issue so that I can work locally as if I was on my server remotely? so that all links and includes work and so that one folder is considered the root folder?