failed to open stream: No such file or directory

bcraft

HELP!!! I love this wamp thing, but I'm having a devil of a time trying to get a require_once directive to work properly. The following line in my /ratQOI/index.php page...

<?php require_once '/ratQOI/lib/ratqoi.php' ?>

causes the following error:

Warning: main(/ratQOI/lib/ratqoi.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in c:\wamp\www\ratQOI\index.php on line 1

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/ratQOI/lib/ratqoi.php' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in c:\wamp\www\ratQOI\index.php on line 1

And the file DEFINITELY exists in the appropriate directory. My document root is c:\wamp\www\ obviously. However, if I change the directive to

<?php require_once 'lib/ratqoi.php' ?>

relative to the index.asp page itself instead of to the web root with the leading slash, then it works fine!!!!!

I'm a newbie, so I beg your patience with this what must be a silly question, but please tell me what I'm doing wrong. Here's my version info...

Wamp 1.2
PHP 5.0.1
Apache 2?

tsinka

Hi,

require_once an the other include macros need the full path to the file you want to include so something like

<?php require_once 'C:/wamp/www/ratQOI/lib/ratqoi.php' ?>

might work. But I'd suggest to use the relative path. That makes it easier to move the scripts to another location (if neccessary at all).

Additionally, I'd suggest to have a slightly different directory structure. Something like ...

C:/wamp/www => DOCUMENT_ROOT
C:/wamp/cgi-bin => cgi scripts
C:/wamp/include => php scripts included (outside DOCUMENT_ROOT)

Put all php scripts that are not requested directly but included by other scripts into the include directory so they can't be requested directly.

Thomas

bcraft

Thanks for your reply. I understand and appreciate your advice.

However, what I'm trying to do is use the require_once directive (or any of the include directives) to reference a file relative to my site root. This works on my service provider's Linux server, but not on WAMP on my local machine. I find this strange because references to files relative to the local file (filepaths NOT starting witha "/") DO work on my local machine.

Is there something in my config files that I have to change to allow references to my site root via include directives? For example, for filepaths STARTING with a "/", as in my initial post...