Question

Here is my code:

if (file_exists('config.php')) {
    require('config.php'); // This is line 38
}

Which somehow produces the error:

Warning: require(config.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /path/name/file.php on line 38

How on earth is this possible?

Update: The following does work:

if (file_exists(getcwd(). '/config.php')) {
     require(getcwd(). '/config.php');
}

Answer 1

try to ignore the include path:

if (file_exists('config.php')) {
    require('./config.php'); // This is line 38
}

if it works you are missing . directory into the include path and you have to choose to include it or using relative path file names

You can change your include_path with a php configuration directive (if you can change the php config file) or resort to get_include_path() and set_include_path() on a per file/project base

ex: set_include_path('.'. PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path()); in your first line of php (or in a common configuration file);

Sources:

• include php manual
• include_path
• set_include_path
• get_include_path