Re: moved code to a new server

Marc Fromm wrote: > I think I fixed it. The error said that the file script.js, line 4 of the code, could not be > found: > 4 <? require > ("http://path/to/the/file/script.js")?> > > I changed the line to this and it now works: > <? require ("script.js") ?> > > I wonder why on the old server it could find the file based on the full url while the new > server cannot find the file with the full url. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mohamed Ainab [mailto:mohamed@ainab.com] > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 3:34 PM > To: Daniel P. Brown > Cc: php php; Marc Fromm > Subject: RE: [PHP] moved code to a new server > > > would be very helpfull if you would post the code. > > ----------- > http://ainab.com | > http://somaliyrics.net > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [PHP] moved code to a new server > From: "Daniel P. Brown" <daniel.brown@parasane.net> > Date: Fri, October 24, 2008 3:25 pm > To: "php php" <php-general@lists.php.net>, "Marc Fromm" > <marc.fromm@wwu.edu> > > Forwarded to General, since this doesn't belong on DB. > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Marc Fromm <Marc.Fromm@wwu.edu> wrote: >> We moved our website to a new linux server. The code was running on a different linux >> server. Thus the OS environment is the same. >> We are receiving this error: >> [Fri Oct 24 14:53:37 2008] PHP Fatal error: require() [<a >> href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required 'this >> was a url to a .js file' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in >> /var/www/html/path to .php file on line 4 >> >> I'm not a php programmer thus I am in the dark. > > You don't have to be, you just have to read the error message. If > you copied that verbatim, then 'this was a url to a .js file' exists > on line 4 of .php in /var/www/html/path, and PHP failed to open it. > > Make sure the file exists exactly where PHP is looking for it, and > that it's accessible and readable to and by the user as which the > server is running when executing .php in /var/www/html/path, > and > that the target file can be found from that directory. > > -- > </Daniel P. Brown> > http://www.parasane.net/ [New Look] > daniel.brown@parasane.net || danbrown@php.net > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > Probably because in your new system it has this in your php.ini file allow_url_include = Off Change it to this allow_url_include = On Restart your webserver and it should probably work just fine. You might also want to check into this option too. allow_url_fopen = Off Change it to allow_url_fopen = On if you would like to allow the opening of remote files via fopen/file_get_contents/etc... -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare