PHP includes reference wrong path - XAMPP on Windows 11

[stoneage]

I have a new installation of XAMPP for Windows. When viewing a web page containing PHP include files, the path to the include directory that XAMPP is referencing is not correct.

I have projects in individual directories located in /xampp/htdocs/ (such as /xampp/htdocs/sitename/). I can view all elements of a web page at http://localhost/sitename/ as long as their are no includes.

Example of an include I'm using:
<?php include("_php-inc/myinclude.php"); ?>

Physical location of the include:
C:/xampp/htdocs/sitename/_php-inc/myinclude.php

However, XAMPP is looking here in the shared htdocs:
C:/xampp/htdocs/_php-inc/myinclude.php

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Example error message on web page:
Warning: require_once(C:/xampp/htdocs/_php-inc/myinclude.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\sitename\index.php on line 2

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Failed opening required 'C:/xampp/htdocs/_php-inc/myinclude.php' (include_path='C:\xampp\php\PEAR') in C:\xampp\htdocs\sitename\index.php:2 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in C:\xampp\htdocs\sitename\index.php on line 2
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Do I need to define a path to each project's directory somewhere in Apache? I've searched this forum and the documentation, but must be missing something.
Thanks for any help!

[Altrea]

hi,

don't use paranthesis around include and require statements.
These are special language costructs not functions.

[Nobbie]

Example error message on web page:
Warning: require_once(C:/xampp/htdocs/_php-inc/myinclude.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\sitename\index.php on line 2

That error message does not match the PHP code you showed above. You showed an "include" statement, the error message is about require_once. You can also see, that your code calls require_once with a fully qualified path "C:/xampp/htdocs/_php-inc/myinclude.php", this is NOT the path you applied to the include, which was "_php-inc/myinclude.php". Its quite clear that you are doing something wrong, not PHP or Xampp.

[Altrea]

I tested it on my Testenvironment (Windows 11, XAMPP 8.2.4)

contents of \xampp\htdocs\sitename\index.php

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<?php include("_php-inc/myinclude.php"); ?>

contents of \xampp\htdocs\sitename\_php-inc\myinclude.php

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<?php echo 'Hello world'; ?>

Output of http://localhost/sitename/

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Hello world

Works like a charm.
Maybe there is something you didn't say us like a redirect fired by a .htaccess file or some of your provided information is not correct (which can happen easily by accident while obfuscating real data.