database failure

[stalkio]

I have created a search page and made the action to go to my results page, but on testing this in the browser the results page is unable to function reading:

Warning: require_once(Connections/dic3.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/stalkio/public_html/results2.php on line 1

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'Connections/dic3.php' (include_path='.:/x10hosting/php2/pear/PEAR') in /home/stalkio/public_html/results2.php on line 1

I don't know how to solve this problem to test if it works, has someone experienced this?

 

[LHVWB]

That is a classic file not found error with php, make sure that the correct location for that file has been given to the require_once() function.

Remember that you should probably give it a location starting with the server root, or a '/'. So something like 'require_once("/home/stalkio/public_html/Connections/dic3.php");', should work.

 

[marshian]

Remember if the url you provide starts with / it's considerred to be the server root, while any other charachter is the active directory

 

[sybregunne]

Even "../" will work fine.

eg.

Home
+----pictures
|
+----scripts

your file inside scripts folder can have a

include "../pictures/random_nude_pix_album.php";

it will work.

another thing to note is x10hosting is files and directories are case sensitive.

 

[Chris Z]

Hopefully you wouldn't have a Random Nude Pix Album on x10's servers though, as that'd of course be against our Terms of Service.

 

[stalkio]

just to say thanks for your replies - the problem was embarrassingly simple for anyone who gets the same problem = the database I was attempting to use wasn't uploaded to the remote server - I did so in a file named 'connections'.

 

[TechAsh]

Since this has been solved I'm going to close it.

*Closed*