[RESOLVED] include & require fails for paths deeper than two dirs

[arst]

Hello,

I'm experiencing a problem where basic PHP include/require fails for any paths that have more than 2 directory components.

First I try in php.ini:

include_path = "/usr/php_inc:."

And i make the file "/usr/php_inc/included.php" and put some dummy lines there.
Then, I restart Apache and do:

include 'included.php' // in file: http://localhost/test.php

and it works fine.

Then I change include_path:

include_path = "/usr/php_inc/sub_dir:."

and move "included.php" into "sub_dir". Restart Apache and re-run the simple test script. This time... I get:

Warning: include(included.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/test.php on line 5

The only difference is that the include path is one step deeper.

I've been trying this in several different dirs and the result is always the same: If one of the paths in include_path is deeper than two dirs, include/require fails.

I also see the correct include_path when I do phpinfo().

This seems so peculiar so I doubt that it's a PHP bug.

Any ideas what is going wrong here?

My system setup: Ubuntu 8.4, Apache 2.0, PHP 5.2.3.

Any help appreciated.

Regards
// Arne S.

[Kudose]

Your run-time include path should be displayed along with the error message.

Can you please post this omitted information?

[arst]

Ouch, the solution was so simple (I should have known it earlier).

"execution" file permission was missing for "group/others". (But the error message was misleading: "file not found" instead of "access denied").

Anyway "chmod a+x" on the nested dir did the trick.

Regards
// ATS.