Warning: require(1) [function.require]: failed to open stream

Pioneer5000

Warning: require(1) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /website/test1.php Project/testpage5.php on line 3

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '1' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /website/test1.php on line 3.

Can anyone help me as to why i get this error. I have using Linux - Distro: Ubuntu if that helps.
I have installed php-pear from Package Manager but still no good. Can anyone help me out please. Thanks.

j_70

Could you post your code, particularly line 3? Your include cannot be found. Are you sure it is in one of the include paths?

Pioneer5000


<?php

require($_SERVER = ("/home/bob/htdocs")."/Config/config.php") or die (mysql_error()); 
$connection = @mysql_connect($db_host, $db_user, $db_password);
mysql_select_db ($db_name, $connection);

NogDog

That require() line is pretty messed up. The argument to require() needs to be a file pathname. I'm not sure what the $_SERVER = portion is doing in there, plus the or die(mysql_error()) doesn't make much sense there, either, as require() has nothing to do with MySQL (although the file it calls might).

Normally it would be something like:

require '/home/bob/htdocs/Config/config.php';

Or perhaps you wanted to use the $SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] super-global to do:

require $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/Config/config.php';

Pioneer5000

NogDog;10881255 wrote:
That require() line is pretty messed up. The argument to require() needs to be a file pathname. I'm not sure what the $_SERVER = portion is doing in there, plus the or die(mysql_error()) doesn't make much sense there, either, as require() has nothing to do with MySQL (although the file it calls might).

Normally it would be something like:
require '/home/bob/htdocs/Config/config.php';
Or perhaps you wanted to use the $SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] super-global to do:
require $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/Config/config.php';

Tried both of those but still no good? Could have something to do with that Pear stuff

I looked through hdd and
/usr/share/php Does exist
/usr/share/pear Doesnt exist

what is this (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') about?

Could that be the error if so how do i fix?

j_70

First does '/home/bob/htdocs/Config/config.php' actually exist and if it does, are the file permissions for this file and directory such that the web-server user (IIS or Apache) has permissions to read it?

If you can, why not just put this file in the default include path, listed in php.ini.

NogDog

The include_path stuff is telling you where PHP is looking for the include file. If you are providing a correct absolute or relative path to the file to be included (required), then the include_path stuff is basically irrelevant to the current problem, which is that the specified include file either does not exist, there is a misspelling somewhere in the supplied path, or there is a permissions issue.

j_70

To further NogDog's reply, I have encountered this issue in Linux many times. You need to be aware of the fact that although you may open up the permissions of the file itself, you need to open up the permissions of the entire file path. So you need to have read permissions down through the file tree "/home/bob/htdocs/Config/" to get to the config file.

NogDog

Another point to consider is that, unlike in Windows, Linus directory and file names are case-sensitive.

Pioneer5000

Im using the line

require '/home/bob/htdocs/Config/config.php';

and this is the error im getting:

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '')' at line 1

Line 1 only has <? opening php tag?

This is odd dont know why its doing this and im sure ive spelt path correctly and path exists...

bradgrafelman

Line 1 isn't referring to line 1 of your script, it's referring to the first line (probably the only line) you sent to the MySQL server in a query.

Pioneer5000

oh ok so in that case my require line is all good now then? onto the next problem?

NogDog

Pioneer5000;10881621 wrote:
oh ok so in that case my require line is all good now then? onto the next problem?

Looks that way.

j_70

Could you post your code, as in all of it. We could get a better idea of what is going on.