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I just ran into an interesting issue. I was trying to include a file from one directory higher, using a variable that evaluated to "../startpage.php". It worked fine on a target server using IIS/PHP 4, but not on my development Apache/PHP server. It turns out that on my development server, the subdirectory was actually a symlink to elsewhere. So what I had was a base directory for the project of /var/www/html/base/ which had an include file of startpage.php. I was automatically generating pages elsewhere on my system using Doxygen, and so I created a symlink "doxy" pointing to the output directory. The templates in the Doxygen output checked $PHP_SELF to determine if the file was loaded directly, or included from the base directory, and if it was directly, it included "../startpage.php". But when I viewed the file, PHP gave me an error, saying it couldn't find the page! Turns out include("../startpage.php") tried to find the file in the parent directory of the Doxygen output, rather than following the symlink back to /var/www/html/base! Solution: Move the Doxygen target directory to /var/www/html/base/doxy, and symlink from the other location. Hope this helps someone! Cheers, John