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Can't get PHP to parse a file from subdirectory

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carlg

carlg

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For some reason I can't get PHP to parse a file that is located in a sub directory of the DOCROOT. Any files placed in the DOCROOT are perfectly fine without problem.
See the example below (All html files work fine from sub directories); Thanks in advance for the help.


When I call up y.php in the browser, this displays an empty page

[myuser@localhost admin]$ pwd
/var/[myuser@localhost admin]$ more y.php
<?
print "sdfdsfsdfsdfdsfsdfsd";
?>



In this example, the string gets displayed in the browser as you would expect

[myuser@localhost admin]$ cd ..
[myuser@localhost html]$ pwd
/var/[myuser@localhost html]$ more y.php
<?
print "sdfdsfsdfsdfdsfsdfsd";
?>
[myuser@localhost html]$



This also displays perfectly fine in browser


[myuser@localhost admin]$ more y.html
<HTML>
<H1 ALIGN="center">HELLO</H1>
</HTML>
[myuser@localhost admin]$pwd
/var/[myuser@localhost admin]$
 
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Let me see if I understand correctly.

You have a script called y.php.

Two identical copies of this script reside in /var/ and /var/
Since the document root of your site is /var/ the two copies of the script can be reached at [ignore] and [/ignore], respectively.

However, [ignore] works but [/ignore] doesn't. Is this correct?



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You got it.

It's had me puzzled just about all day.

At first I thought that admin may be some sort of keyword so I changed the dir name to something else and same problem.

html files work perfectly fine in the subdirs

 
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Tell me about your environment...OS, web server, whether you're running PHP as a CGI or a server module.


Compare the permissions on the subdirectory to the permissions on the document root. Are the ownership and permissions the same?



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I already did a
chmod 777 dirname

on the directory

Fedora Core 5 with apache webserver, PHP is a server module

It did have different owners, but I just changed that and still didn't work.

I also tried different browsers.

I am accessing the server from an XP mahcine
 
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I THINK WE GOT IT!!!!!!

Thanks for all of your help!!!

I never thought of lookin in the error log (not sure why I didn't think of that)

Here was the problem

I have the following line in my php.ini file (which I put there for a purpose)

auto_prepend_file = Prepend.php


Prepend.php did not exist in the subdirectories, but when I copied it there, it works.

I think this was the problem.

I guess I should probably put the entire PATH of the file in php.ini


Thanks again

Carl


 
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