Require Problem

Anon

Hello Everyone,

I'm migrating a site from Win98/Apache/php4 to RH6.2/Apache/mod_php4, and I'm having a problem on the new platform. At the beginning of one of my pages, I have

require_once('login.inc');

which generates the error

Fatal error: Failed opening required 'login.inc' (include_path='.:/usr/local/barrett/include:/usr/local/barrett') in /usr/local/barrett/index.php on line 3

The file I'm requiring is in the include_path, yet for some reason Apache or PHP is unable to open it. The file is readable by everyone (permissions = 644).

It seems like there should be a simple solution, but I've been pulling my hair out for two days!

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Jason

xzilla

see if you can include it refrenced explicitly

Anon

Thanks for the suggestion! I already tried specifying the fully path in my require statement, and I get the same error.

smarlowe

Check your permissions on that file, it's likely that nobody or httpd or whoever the web server runs as doesn't have permission to read it.

Anon

Thanks for the suggestion. The file is readable by everyone. I already tried

chown nobody:nobody login.inc

and

chown nobody:nobody include

but I still got the same error. I also tried running httpd as a different user:

User jason
Group jason

with the files owned by that user and group but again, got the same error.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks,
Jason

xzilla

this is a shot in the dark, but change your statement from

require_once('login.inc');

require_once("login.inc");

Anon

Believe me, I'm open to shots in the dark at this point! Unfortunately, changing from single to double quotes didn't do the trick.

Thanks for your reply, though.

Anon

Problem solved! I su'd to nobody (the httpd user) and found that I was unable to cd to the my include directory. It turned out that I needed 755 permissions on that directory in order for the "nobody" user to access it. Just having read access to the directory (644) wasn't enough. I still don't understand exactly why execute permissions are necessary, but at least I have a working solution.

Thanks, Scott and Robert, for your suggestions.