Re: Please HELP : general problem : fatal error ...

On 24 May, hans wrote: > hi, > this problem slows me down : every file, which have to be included, > reports a > "Fatal error: Failed opening required 'anyfile.inc' in > /usr/local/apache/htdocs/medinet/ch05/menu.php3" > (or other directories, not only medinet) > > The complete file looks like that : > <?php require('common.inc'); ?> > <?php affy_header('Administrative Menu') ?> > <h1>Administrative Menu</h1> > <ol> > <li><a href="connect.php3">Create Database > Connection</a></li> > </ol> > <?php affy_footer() ?> > > and the directory ch05 contains these files : (inluded owners and > rights) > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 321 May 23 17:26 common.inc* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 321 May 23 17:26 common.phps* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1109 May 23 17:26 connect01.php3* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1109 May 23 17:26 connect01.phps* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 904 May 23 17:26 connect02.php3* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 904 May 23 17:26 connect02.phps* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 204 May 23 17:26 menu.php3* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 204 May 23 17:26 menu.phps* > > > It doesn't matter, if I write the examples with hands or read in the the > files from anywhere. > > Does anybody know, what causes this behavior ? > > In the meantime this problem is really urgent. > > Have installed all the necessary files like apache, mysql, php and > anything else a few times now, but that cannot be the reason. All was > going well during ./configure, make and make install. > > Maybe, I have failed to notice something ? > > How is it with user-rights ? what I should have here ? who should be the > owner of the needed includes ? which rights this user should have ? > > In one case I was able to solve the problem : there was a forumdb.txt > and there was NO rights for "others". After changing to rw to others, > the file was writeable - the script was running well. > But in this case - what can I do here ? > > Am hoping, that we are able to find the reason for this behavior as soon > as possible. > > Thanks in advance > Hans Schneidhofer A couple of suggestions; firstly, check that you ahve at least . in the include_path in your php.ini (or php3.ini if you are running version 3). Secondly, you probably should remove the executable status from your files, make them owned by whatever user maintains them (NOT root!) and make them rw for that user and r for group and other - your webserver needs to read them and is probably running as user nobody. Cheers -- David Robley | WEBMASTER & Mail List Admin RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES | http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/ AusEinet | http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/ Flinders University, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA