Problem with Absolute Link

[slaterino]

I am currently having some problems creating absolute links. I am trying to create a link in my right navigation area for a rss feed. This navigation area features on pages in a number of different levels so I want to create a link like this:

 

require_once ($docroot).'rss/rss.inc'

 

where $docroot is the name of my domain. However when I do this I get this message:

 

Warning: main(http://www.mydomain.com/rss/rss.inc) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Connection refused in /home/sites/mydomainname.com/public_html/news/index.php on line 18

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'http://www.mydomain.com/rss/rss.inc' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /home/sites/mydomain.com/public_html/news/index.php on line 18

 

 

When I use relative links such as

require_once '../rss/rss.inc'

I don't get this problem at all. Does anyone know what could be causing this?

 

Thanks

Russ

[GingerRobot]

And what is the value of $docroot?

[slaterino]

$docroot=('http://www.mydomain.com/');

[Jabop]

$docroot=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];

[Maq]

Shouldn't it be w/ french braces?

 

require_once {$docroot}.'rss/rss.inc'

[GingerRobot]

Or no braces at all. Didn't even notice the brackets on first glance. Should either be:

 

require_once $docroot.'rss/rss.inc';

 

Or:

 

require_once ($docroot.'rss/rss.inc');

[slaterino]

Hi,

I've tried all the suggestions for trying to get this working and am still getting the error message of:

 

Warning: main(http://www.mydomain.com/rss/rss.inc) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Connection refused in /home/sites/mydomain.com/public_html/news/index.php on line 60

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'http://www.mydomain.com/rss/rss.inc' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /home/sites/mydomain.com/public_html/news/index.php on line 60

 

I've tried using $docroot=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; as well as $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] and $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] and keep getting the same response. Is there some kind of restriction that could be stopping the script from being accessed properly.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thanks

Russ