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Hey I hope you can help

I am using $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']. for my PHP include

I recently started to use XAMP control panel v3.2.2, I may of missed a configuration setting somewhere but I'll try my best to explain the problem

My website index.php is located in the directory /website/ and I am including a file from a directory on the same level such as /example/

The include looks like this:

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include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/example/config.php');

My PHP include works fine on the live server on my web-host, but when I try viewing the same site/page on my localhost machine I get a blank page, no errors in the error log, so I assume that I have the include set up correctly but the content isn't showing

I have setup an entry in httpd-vhosts.conf that looks like this:

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<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/my_site"
ServerName test.dev
ServerAlias www.test.dev
<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/my_site">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

And I have also changed my hosts file with these 2 entries:

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127.0.0.1       www.test.dev
127.0.0.1       test.dev

If the files are being included from within a sub-directory, all works fine if I use this:

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include("folder_name/config.php");

But I want to keep my current file-structure

Thanks!

thanks for the help

Hi,

Did you try to print out $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/example/config.php to see whats in there?

Best wishes,
Altrea