Question

I’m debugging some PHP code written by an outsourcing company (I’m not a PHP guy at all but know the basics; we have an offshore team of PHP developers working for us on this project) that’s not working; the code is supposed to be called every 30 minutes by a cron job but its not firing. I tried to run the PHP script via the command line to test if it’s working, but it’s giving me the following (anonymized) errror:

PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '/myapp/_lib/_classes/MySql.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/html/myapp/_lib/_base/common.inc.php on line 6

However, the file /var/www/html/myapp/_lib/_classes/MySql.php exists under the proper directory. I’m missing something simple, I’m sure, but like I said I know really nothing beyond the bare basics of PHP and I really need to get this service up and running.

EDIT: The code is using the __autoload() function with all classes in /_lib/_classes

Answer 1

if you start a file name with a slash, it means it’s an absolute path. try instead:

require_once('/var/www/html/myapp/_lib/_classes/MySql.php');