cleaning old files on 1.3.9h -> strange error

Hello,

After upgrading my ZenCart to 1.3.9h, I noticed in the docs that some files where removed from the latest release, but where still on my server - from previous installation. I started to remove those obsolete files, and after a while - not sure which files I removed so far - I can't access to the admin and get the following error :

[30-Dec-2010 00:29:29] PHP Warning: require(includes/init_includes/init_canonical.php) [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/www/a.(removed by me).fb6261/users/ilot20/web/includes/autoload_func.php on line 48
[30-Dec-2010 00:29:29] PHP Warning: require(includes/init_includes/init_canonical.php) [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/www/a...fb6261/users/ilot20/web/includes/autoload_func.php on line 48
[30-Dec-2010 00:29:29] PHP Fatal error: require() [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required 'includes/init_includes/init_canonical.php' (include_path='.:/opt/php/lib/php') in /home/www/a...fb6261/users/ilot20/web/includes/autoload_func.php on line 48

OK, not such a problem, I go the that folder includes/init_includes and see, surprisingly, that the init_canonical.php is already there! I re-uploaded it, but no change, I always get the same error!

How can the file be present on the server, but still its absence lead to that error ?

Thanks,

sanji

sanji:

OK, not such a problem, I go the that folder includes/init_includes and see, surprisingly, that the init_canonical.php is already there! I re-uploaded it, but no change, I always get the same error!

How can the file be present on the server, but still its absence lead to that error ?

Thanks,

sanji

It can't. (however with some systems this same error message is reported if there is a permissions problem and the files is unreadable rather than being absent)

Anyway, if we assume that the permissions are not a problem, then this error usually means there is something amiss with your environment variables..

" includes/init_includes/" is a relative path to the document root, so if your document root is set incorrectly then this is the error you will receive.. IOW, you are looking (and finding) this file in one place, but the server is looking elsewhere.

Happy hunting :)

Cheers
rod

Thanks, this will allow me to search in a more specific direction... or just give up and reupload the files that could cause this issue ;)