WTH is wrong with this??

[Napster]

I have a php script and error, obviously, if I didnt, I would not be here. My script is giving me an error or:

Warning: membersonly(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/rpg/footer.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/mp/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/mp/public_html/rpg/common.php on line 129

Warning: membersonly(/rpg/footer.php): failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /home/mp/public_html/rpg/common.php on line 129

Warning: membersonly(): Failed opening '/rpg/footer.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/bin:/usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel:/proc:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/mp/public_html/rpg/common.php on line 129

From this line of code:

include_once("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/rpg/footer.php");

I have also tried

include_once("/home/public_html/mp/rpg/footer.php");

include_once("/rpg/footer.php");

include("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/rpg/footer.php");

require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/rpg/footer.php");

and

include("/home/public_html/mp/rpg/footer.php");

Can some one please help me. Thank you in advance.

[planetsim]

Have you read the error?

File(/rpg/footer.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/mp/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/mp/public_html/rpg/common.php on line 129

/rpg/footer.php is saying that rpg is in the root directory. Which it clearly cant be. Use $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']

[justsomeone]

Originally posted by Napster
I have a php script and error, obviously, if I didnt, I would not be here.

Why not? Why not stop by to help other people out??

[bradgrafelman]

Two things. You're trying to retrieve a server variable (DOCUMENT_ROOT) by slapping a $ on the front of it. Ain't gonna happen. Try the solution posted by planetsim, like so:

include_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/rpg/footer.php');

Notice I did not add the $_SERVER[] inside the array, because I've just always found it to be cleaner and look better to concatenate (perhaps even work more often) to escape out of strings when using array-indexed variables.

Also, when you tried:

include_once("/home/public_html/mp/rpg/footer.php");

I believe you misunderstood the directory structure of linux servers. The public_html folder should be (and is, I'll bet) a folder inside each user's home directory, or '/home/<username>/'. That is because you are only giving access to your 'home' folder, i.e. '/home/mp/'. It would be silly and confusing to have "two" home folders, located in separate places, i.e. "/home/mp/" and "/home/public_html/mp/" . IF you still wanted to hardcode the path (not recommended if you can avoid it; make your script dynamic and flexible), the correct path most likely looks like this:

include_once("/home/mp/public_html/rpg/footer.php");