Php includes not doing their job

Since yesterday, I have been getting this on my site. I've been using php includes for over two months and haven't changed anything in the coding;everything was working just fine until yesterday when I this showed up out of nowhere.

Warning: main(): URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/.sagebrush/cenamaria/cenamaria.com/blog/index.php on line 1

Warning: main(http://cenamaria.com/header.php): failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/.sagebrush/cenamaria/cenamaria.com/blog/index.php on line 1

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'http://cenamaria.com/header.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/.sagebrush/cenamaria/cenamaria.com/blog/index.php on line 1

I don't understand because I haven't made any changes to files or anything. None of my php includes are working on my http://cenamaria.com domain but the php includes are working on my two subdomains just fine. It's as though it has changed overnight or something. Is it a problem with the server or what?

I'm not too knowledgable with php so anything about pathes, etc. you'll have to break it down for me.

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I read it and I still don't understand what is going on at all. I need someone to seriously break this down for me. All I know is includes. Everything from curl to magpie or whatever is WAY over my head.

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I read it and I still don't understand what is going on at all. I need someone to seriously break this down for me. All I know is includes. Everything from curl to magpie or whatever is WAY over my head.

How are you doing your includes? If you are doing them like this, then you'll have a problem:

<?php include("http://cenamaria.com/footer.php"); ?>

That kind of path is called a remote path (sometimes erroneously referred to as an absolute path). Since the file you are including is a local file, there is no need to access it with the full remote pathname. I recommend using an absolute path (also called "relative from root"), like this:

<?php include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/footer.php"); ?>

Give it a try. If it doesn't work, come back here and we'll see if is related to something else.

Hi. I have the same problem but what I'm trying to include is a counter file instead of a footer. I tried your document root thing and it doesn't work for me. It seems the document root doesn't include the ".abdonwasher" part, and I think that's why the error I get says there's there's no such file.

Also, I still get that "failed opening *blahblah* for inclusion" error.

I use PHP includes on the same file and it works just fine. It points simply to "menu.txt," yet when I try to include "counter/count.php?id=1," it does not work. Any ideas?

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It seems the document root doesn't include the ".abdonwasher" part

You don't need that bit. In fact, it is unwise to include it because you may get moved to a different server (which would break the include).

I've never tried including anything with a querystring, so I can't help you with that bit, but the path should be the same.

Oh I see. Well it didn't work for me, but thanks. I hope there's another solution out there. I can use an iFrame but then it looks pretty ugly.

Php includes not doing their job