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SSI not working on WAMP virtual host

Asked by: bigmoxy

I have a virtual host setup on my local WAMP server. It's a pretty vanilla installation other than the listen port is 8080. I access the vhost by local.mydomain.com:8080. The vhost is a copy of a live web site and it contains many include ('dir/file.php') statements. However none of the includes resolve.

I would greatly appreciate any insight and recommendations!!

Regards,

Tim

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2008-03-05 at 19:26:18ID23218398
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Server Side Includes (SSI)

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PHP Scripting Language

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Answers

 

by: darron_chapmanPosted on 2008-03-05 at 20:11:48ID: 21057261

Sounds like Safe Mode is turned on in your php.ini file... go in to php.ini, find safe_mode and turn it off

 

by: bigmoxyPosted on 2008-03-05 at 20:22:16ID: 21057301

Sorry Darron but Safe Mode is already off:

;
; Safe Mode
;
safe_mode = Off

Tim

 

by: darron_chapmanPosted on 2008-03-05 at 20:29:23ID: 21057327

Make sure that the include files actually exists and are in the correct place

 

by: bigmoxyPosted on 2008-03-05 at 20:36:33ID: 21057368

As I mentioned at the onset, I am working with a copy of a live site. I do understand file locations and their respective references.

 

by: darron_chapmanPosted on 2008-03-05 at 20:40:34ID: 21057388

I'm unsure of the issue then... I know I've ran into issues before with absolute references of include files... where on the live side the include was c:/inetpub/www/file.php and on the test side i had to change all of the references to c:/wamp/www/file.php ... but it sounds like you're using relative includes, and that wouldn't apply here... sorry i'm not much more help

 

by: bigmoxyPosted on 2008-03-05 at 20:48:07ID: 21057426

Darron,
Here's an example of how the includes are used. Yes, they are relative references.

File a.php contains this
<? include ("includes/header.php"); ?> which contains

<?
session_start();
//include ("connect.php");
//include ("login-check.php");
//include("/../FCKeditor/fckeditor.php");
include ("includes/connect.php");
include ("includes/login-check.php");
include ("FCKeditor/fckeditor.php");
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>:: Website Control Panel ::</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<!--Fireworks MX 2004 Dreamweaver MX 2004 target.  Created Mon Sep 11 14:20:00 GMT-0700 (Pacific Standard Time) 2006-->
...

 

by: waygoodPosted on 2008-03-06 at 02:27:57ID: 21058838

From experience, includes run from the current directory

so include ("includes/header.php");   is fine

but inside include includes/header.php should be
include ("connect.php");  instead of include ("includes/connect.php");  as your already inside includes/

 

by: bigmoxyPosted on 2008-03-06 at 08:17:14ID: 21061751

Thanks for the tip. I changed everything to relative root and I now get -

Warning: include(/admin/includes/header.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in E:\websites\landmetro.com\admin\logged.php on line 1

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/admin/includes/header.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in E:\websites\landmetro.com\admin\logged.php on line 1

The directory structure is /admin/includes/...

The files are located:
/admin/logged.php
/admin/includes/header.php
/admin/includes/connect.php
/admin/includes/login-check.php
/admin/FCKeditor/fckeditor.php

logged.php contains:
<?php include ("/admin/includes/header.php"); ?>

header.php contains:
<?
session_start();
include ("/admin/includes/connect.php");
include ("/admin/includes/login-check.php");
include ("/admin/FCKeditor/fckeditor.php");
?>





 

by: darron_chapmanPosted on 2008-03-06 at 08:42:00ID: 21062067

include file locations are based on the filesystem, not the root of the site... so, when you include /admin/logged.php php is actually looking at /admin on your file system ... you need to do this

include ("c:/wamp/www/admin/includes/connect.php");  change c:/wamp/www to what your site root is...  
it would behoove you to make a variable that you can change

$site_root="c:/wamp/www";
include ("$site_root/admin/includes/connect.php");

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