Help with Alias/Path and include file

[telsiin]

Hello everyone

 

I am a new at this and I having some trouble getting this to work for me

What I am try to do is setup I think should a path or alias to my database connection folder and the are not in the same directory. but I missing some step as its not working. I am running xampp and had everything in the same directory but as downloaded different php application I was advise that my setup was not Secure and I should move my connection file to an area that was not under the same directory as my Document root

 

so guess I need to start with my Document root which is

C:/lordsofansalon/htdocs/home/

 

And I am trying to access a connection file lordsofansalon.php under Directory 

C:/lordsofansalon/Connections/

 

 

in my httpd.conf I attempted to create an Alias

Alias /home/connect "C:/lordsofansalon/Connections"

<Directory "C:/lordsofansalon/Connections">

Options +Indexes

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

 

I tried to access it through a require_once

 

<?php require_once('/home/connect/lordofansalon.php'); ?>

 

 

And received this error

Warning: require_once(/home/connect/lordofansalon.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\lordsofansalon\htdocs\DM\playeraction.php on line 1

 

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/connect/lordofansalon.php' (include_path='.;C:\lordsofansalon\php\pear\') in C:\lordsofansalon\htdocs\DM\playeraction.php on line 1

 

 

also the page that is calling it is under

C:/lordsofansalon/htdocs/DM/

don't know how important that detail may be

 

 

 

Also if someone could advise me on a good reference/how-to book on apache 2.2 I would really appreciated 

Thank you in advance

 

Antonio

 

[wildteen88]

When you include files via PHP, PHP requests for files via the OS not Apache. If you used

require_once "http://yoursite.com/home/connect/lordofansalon.php"

then it'll work however PHP wont include the PHP source code only the output of the included php file.

 

When including files I always do this:

define('ROOT', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);

include ROOT . '/path/to/file.php';