php/apache includes

[dave]

Hello,
Not sure if this is an apache configuration or a php configuration
problem, i'm hoping someone can help. I'm running a webserver on FreeBSD
consisting of apache2 and php4 among other items. I've got a site that has
an alias directive defined in httpd.conf like:

alias /include "/path/to/directory/include"

In that area i have a file header.php which contains standard information i
want displayed across my web pages. In my index file i have:

<? include "/include/header.php"; ?>

The header.php file is not being included, not sure why. Any pointers
appreciated.
Thanks.
Dave.

[Tim Van Wassenhove]

Re: php/apache includes

In article <b2gKc.221347$D G4.124426@fe2.c olumbus.rr.com> , dave wrote:[color=blue]
> consisting of apache2 and php4 among other items. I've got a site that has
> an alias directive defined in httpd.conf like:
>
> alias /include "/path/to/directory/include"[/color]

This means that Apache knows that /include is an alias for /path/foo
[color=blue]
> In that area i have a file header.php which contains standard information i
> want displayed across my web pages. In my index file i have:
>
><? include "/include/header.php"; ?>[/color]

PHP will ask your filesystem (not Apache) for /include/bar.php

Perhaps you may want to change the include_path setting.

--
Tim Van Wassenhove <http://home.mysth.be/~timvw>

[Chung Leong]

Re: php/apache includes


"dave" <dmehler26@woh. rr.com> wrote in message
news:b2gKc.2213 47$DG4.124426@f e2.columbus.rr. com...[color=blue]
> Hello,
> Not sure if this is an apache configuration or a php configuration
> problem, i'm hoping someone can help. I'm running a webserver on FreeBSD
> consisting of apache2 and php4 among other items. I've got a site that has
> an alias directive defined in httpd.conf like:
>
> alias /include "/path/to/directory/include"
>
> In that area i have a file header.php which contains standard information[/color]
i[color=blue]
> want displayed across my web pages. In my index file i have:
>
> <? include "/include/header.php"; ?>
>
> The header.php file is not being included, not sure why. Any pointers
> appreciated.
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>[/color]

Apache aliases don't affect require()/include() in PHP script. PHP loads the
file directly from the filesystem, hence we need a filesystem path. It can
be either absolute or relative. For the latter, the path is relative to the
directory which contain the running script. So if index.php is in
/path/to/directory, you would do include("includ e/header.php").