Warning: include failed to open stream: No such file or directory

[johnmerlino]

Hey all,

 

I viewed this tutorial and the guy used $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] to reference a view layout for his specific index file. So I tried to imitate and did exactly what he did, but for me I got the following error:

Warning: include(/Users/jmerlino/Sites/mark/public/diet/views/layouts/shop.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/jmerlino/Sites/diet/index.php on line 22

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/Users/jmerlino/Sites/mark/public/diet/views/layouts/shop.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /Users/jmerlino/Sites/diet/index.php on line 22

This is the php code that is causing this error:

include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/'.'diet/views/layouts/'.$controller.'.php');

I'm not sure why it's going to:

/Users/jmerlino/Sites/mark/public/diet/views/layouts/shop.php

instead of:

/Users/jmerlino/Sites/diet/views/layouts/shop.php

 

Thanks for any response

[ldb358]

the reason it would do that is because of where to document root is set to( i think) you could also try:

include(__DIR__."/views/layouts/shop.php");

[johnmerlino]

the reason it would do that is because of where to document root is set to( i think) you could also try:

include(__DIR__."/views/layouts/shop.php");

 

Yeah that worked. Still not sure how I would have been able to address $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']. But I will use your solution for now. thanks.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

It's likely that your web host originally had a different folder structure set up and/or your account got moved to a different server and what you currently have for DOCUMENT_ROOT is the definition that was written to your vhosts file when your account was created. Your web host would need to correct the document root setting.

[johnmerlino]

I'm running this locally. Does that mean I have to find vhosts file locally? and I think am going to have to figure out what's wrong with the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], because this:

include(__DIR__.'/'.'/views/'.$controller.'/'.$view.'.php'); //where $controller holds string shop and $view holds string index

produces this error:

Warning: include(/Users/jmerlino/Sites/diet/views/layouts//views/shop/index.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/jmerlino/Sites/diet/views/layouts/shop.php on line 19

when it should produce this:

/Users/jmerlino/Sites/diet/views/shop/index.php

 

 

[johnmerlino]

I used this as a temporary fix:

$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] = '/Users/jmerlino/Sites/';

in my main index.php file. I know it's terrible solution but the apache config is huge and I'm not exactly sure where to look in order to make the change to document root.

 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

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