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wp-blog-header.php not found

Posted on 2016-08-16

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I've written a PHP file that I use as a template for a WordPress page and I want to refer to some WordPress functions on the page so at the top I have:

require_once("/nas/wp/www/bb2/wp-blog-header.php");
 global $wpdb;

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"/nas/wp/www/bb2/" is the root of my site and I can clearly see that wp-blog-header.php is there in the root:

Yet, when the PHP file runs it throws the error:

Warning: require_once(/nas/wp/www/bb2/wp-blog-header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory . . .

Why doesn't it see wp-blog-header.php?

I have a staging copy of the site (the site is hosted on WP Engine, where it's easy to create staging sites) and it works there! The only difference is that I included "staging" in the path to wp-blog-header.php:

 require_once("/nas/wp/www/staging/bb2/wp-blog-header.php");
 global $wpdb;

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Does anyone have any idea what could be going on? After half a day looking at this, I'm out of ideas.

Thanks

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Question by:steva

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by:Dave Baldwin

ID: 417588232016-08-16

Where is the page that is 'including' that file?

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by:steva

ID: 417588362016-08-16

The php file that has the "require()" is a bit large (750 lines) to include here but I can tell you it's a direct copy of the file in the staging version of the site - that works - except the staging copy has "staging" in the require path. I copied the staging version and then deleted "staging" from the require path to get the live version, that doesn't work.

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by:Dave Baldwin

Dave Baldwin earned 250 total points

ID: 417589032016-08-16

I didn't want to see it, I wanted to know what directory it is in. Looks to me like it should probably be just...

require_once("wp-blog-header.php");

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by:David Sankovsky

David Sankovsky earned 250 total points

ID: 417589112016-08-16

First of Dave might have a good point.
Also, I'd check the ownership and the permissions on the file in question.

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by:steva

ID: 417592812016-08-17

I found the problem. phpinfo() shows that the document root for the live site is

/nas/wp/www/sites/bb2

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not

/nas/wp/www/bb2

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require_once("/nas/wp/www/sites/bb2/wp-blog-header.php");

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works.
Thanks for your input. I split the points.

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by:Dave Baldwin

ID: 417597832016-08-17

You're welcome, glad to help.

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