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dwtubtone

Hi,

Can someone tell me what it means in instructions from my web host that say

"your scripts will need to specify this location: 'home/users/web/b1942/<myusername>/public_html'" ?

Does that mean that I need an include statement with that path on every php page?

I needed to move a web site to a different host recently. I had a couple of php pages running just fine on the old host's web server. Now those pages are generating server errors on the new host.

Thanks for any insight.

benracer

no, the root folder is where the files for your website need to be, index.php needs to be in here. The root folder is where the server looks for the pages. Some hosting companies call this folder your domain name and other public_html.

dwtubtone

Thanks for the reply. I do have all of my html and php files in public_html. The home page of the site is index.html, so I don't have an index.php in there. Do I need to create an index.php in the root folder?

Thanks.

NogDog

We probably need to see the exact error messages you are getting to analyze the source of the problem, and we may also need to see the relevant scripts (or at least the sections of those scripts that are generating the errors). There are many reasons a script may work on one server and not on another.

dwtubtone

Here's the error message I'm getting:

"The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.
The script had an error or it did not produce any output. If there was an error, you should be able to see it in the error log. "

There are no errors in the log.

The php page does some basic file operations--open and display output

<?php
$songFile = "WEB-INF/songlist.txt";
$counter = 0;
$fh = fopen($songFile, 'r');
while($theData = fgets($fh))
{
if($counter==170 || $counter==340) {?>
</td>
<td valign="top">
<?php
}
echo $theData;?>
<?
$counter++;
?>
<br>
<?php
}
fclose($fh);

NogDog

Try sticking this at the very beginning of the script to see if it gives you any more info:

<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

My only guess at this point is that the fopen() is failing, thus there is nothing getting output in the while loop. If so, the above should reveal any such errors, or if it's something else, we might still get some debug info out of it.

benracer

are you trying to install a pre made template?

dwtubtone

No--I'm not trying to install a pre-made template.

I put the error reporting code in the script. There is still nothing showing up in the log file.

It seems strange that this works on localhost and on the previous web host. Is there something I need to look at in php.ini?

Thanks for your help.