PHP include statements not executing on Ubuntu 12.04

March 3, 2014 4.5k views
thezachbaker
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thezachbaker
I am configuring PHP for the first time on my Ubuntu 12.04 distro and am not able to render my foo.php file to render any of the files attached with an include statement. For example, I have header.php and footer.php referenced in foo.php with . I can get a phpinfo file to run via in an info.php file, but when I hit foo.php, the include statements seem to not be rendering on the server. Any thoughts?
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thezachbaker March 3, 2014
Looks like I lost some code/made some typos in the above post :P

Short story is that I am suspicious of include 'header.php' and include 'footer.php' statements not rendering on new LAMP distro. phpinfo() runs fine.
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kamaln7 MOD March 3, 2014
Can you pastebin your files?
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thezachbaker March 3, 2014
Sure thing.

Header - http://pastebin.com/6wSJ5mse
Body - http://pastebin.com/z1PijAXJ
Footer - http://pastebin.com/PuUpRb35

Also, my folder hierarchy is setup like this:

/www
-/html
-index.php
-/templates
-header.php
-footer.php
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thezachbaker March 3, 2014
:( And since I'm not able to edit my posts, here's a better representation of the folder hierarchy:

/www
----index.php
----/templates
------------header.php
------------footer.php
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kamaln7 MOD March 4, 2014
You're trying to include files from 
/templates
which doesn't exist. You have to either use relative paths (./templates/header.php) or absolute paths (/var/www/templates/header.php).
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