Errors in application_top

[cdjohn31]

i am getting the following error:

Warning: main(includes/configure.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/sites/meilijianshopping.com/web/store/includes/application_top.php on line 60

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'includes/configure.php' for inclusion (include_path='/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/sites/meilijianshopping.com/web/store/includes/application_top.php on line 60

both appliction_top.php and configure.php are unchanged from the original installation.

Any suggestions please

[nomadrw]

open the configure.php and find out what line 60 says. Then tell us what it says

nomad

[DrByte]

(include_path='/usr/local/lib/php')

Your webserver isn't configured to allow "relative" paths.
Ask them if they'll add "." (yes, just a period) to their include_path settings.
Or ask them if your server will allow you to do it manually via a .htaccess file change, and what to put in it.

[cdjohn31]

Thanks DrByte.

The site ran OK for about two months and then this problem occcured two days ago. The hosting company did not change anything and won't add the period in case it affects other customers.

is there anything within admin that could have been changed to cause this problem?

[DrByte]

The site ran OK for about two months and then this problem occcured two days ago. The hosting company did not change anything

Well .. if you didn't change files on the server, and the hosting company didn't change any settings on the server ... then ... you wouldn't suddenly be getting errors that you weren't getting before.

is there anything within admin that could have been changed to cause this problem?

No. The admin settings have nothing to do with whether/how the configure.php file gets loaded.

Does the /admin/includes/configure.php file exist?

[DrByte]

As a test, try adding this to the top of your /admin/includes/application_top.php file, just after the opening <?php line:

/*
 * ensure that the include_path can handle relative paths
 */
if (!strstr(ini_get('include_path'), '.')) ini_set('include_path', '.' . PATH_SEPARATOR . ini_get('include_path'));

[cdjohn31]

DrByte,
I included your code in application_top in both admin/includes and includes itself. Both the site and admin now work.

I now doubt the truthfullness of what the hosting company told me (that they had changed nothing). They only supply email support at weekends so I will have to wait until Monday to speak to a live person.

There isn't a configure.php in admin/includes and, from my backup, don't think there has ever been one.

Many thanks for your help!

[DrByte]

There isn't a configure.php in admin/includes and, from my backup, don't think there has ever been one.

If the admin area is ever to work, there *must* be an /admin/includes/configure.php file. (assuming your "admin" folder is named "admin" and not renamed)

[cdjohn31]

DrByte, There is a configure.php as you rightly say. I've spent too many hours staring at the screen, I think.

The hosting company, Telivo, have denied changing anything on relative paths but, as if by magic, since I complained on Monday it all works OK without your additional code.

I've put this one down to experience.