Problem with moving from xammp localhost to a webserver

Hi everyone,

I have a website that I have been creating using xammp and I have a folder called include that I call on every page which loads my functions and connection variables.

I used this code:

<?php
    require_once('includes\connection.php');
    require_once('includes\functions.php');
    $public = TRUE;
?>

PHP:

It was all working perfectly on my localhost which is a just a copy of xampp running on my computer. I then uploaded it to the webserver (provided by netfirms.com) and I am getting errors that the require_once function is failing to open the stream.

As you can see it is saying that the file or directly dont exist however I have checked the server and the files show with no problems.

Any ideas what my problem is? Thanks in advance.

 

Hi

try / instead of \ in the url - \ usually comes before special characters

Failing that:
- I know it's a dumb suggestion - but first ensure you have actually uploaded them to the right location...
- Then check upper/lower case errors - easily done and causes much problems when moving from windows to apache box
- After that, try calling the php from the browser - so yourdomain/includes/functions.php etc - check you can access it

Hope that helps,

Si

 

Thanks Si, after trying what you said and looking at php.net I found a little piece of code that finds the directory for me and puts the path in.

If your interested heres the code:

define('__ROOT__', dirname(dirname(__FILE__)));
//require_once(__ROOT__.'/config.php);

PHP:

 

Glad you're sorted,

Si