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Asked: 2026-06-05T23:00:30+00:00

I’ve built a very simple website using PHP Includes to display the footer and

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I’ve built a very simple website using PHP Includes to display the footer and sidebar, these PHP includes work when I’m on my computer and view them using EasyPHP, however when I come to upload the site and view it I get the following error displayed on page:

Warning: include() [function.include]: open_basedir restriction in effect.
File(/usr/local/apache/htdocs/includes/sidebar.php) is not within the allowed path(s):
(/home/:/usr/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/a5562725/public_html/index.php on line 26

Here’s the site, hosted for free on 000webhost.

Here’s an example of an include on index.php, used to display the sidebar inside my “includes” folder:

    <?php include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/includes/sidebar.php"; ?>

I’m using the DOCUMENT_ROOT instead of a normal include because some pages are embedded in deeper directories, and the includes will become dead links.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I am guessing since it will be shared hosting it may be set to you’re webroot…

    So simply include using:

    <?php include "/includes/sidebar.php"; ?>

    To expand on that a bit… Hosting Providers usually set open_basedir for security reasons (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.open-basedir)

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