Urgent Help Needed- Company website down

Hi,

My company's website is down so I'm hoping someone has seen this
bizarre problem/behavior before and can help me out
..
We have a USA and an International site. Two directories under the web
server root.
index.html in the web server root directory links to each
/usa/index.php
/intl/index.php

I include the same template files in each .php file under each
directory. My /usa directory renders correctly. But starting today my /
intl directory started exhibiting this weird behavior.

- Viewing the intl/index.php my included template at the top of the
page is all of sudden not working(the code is not included in the
file).
- Yet the same template is used in all the rest of the files in the /
intl directory and the code from the template *is* included.
- When I cut and paste the template code directly in the index.php
file, *it* renders correctly but *all* the other files stop working.
The code is not included.

I've copied the /usa/index.php file to the /intl directory, since it
renders correctly, and I see the same problem. Them template code is
not included in the file.

All permissions on the files are correct.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Case

Re: Urgent Help Needed- Company website down

CaseT wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My company's website is down so I'm hoping someone has seen this
> bizarre problem/behavior before and can help me out
> .
> We have a USA and an International site. Two directories under the web
> server root.
> index.html in the web server root directory links to each
> /usa/index.php
> /intl/index.php
>
> I include the same template files in each .php file under each
> directory. My /usa directory renders correctly. But starting today my /
> intl directory started exhibiting this weird behavior.
>
> - Viewing the intl/index.php my included template at the top of the
> page is all of sudden not working(the code is not included in the
> file).
> - Yet the same template is used in all the rest of the files in the /
> intl directory and the code from the template *is* included.
> - When I cut and paste the template code directly in the index.php
> file, *it* renders correctly but *all* the other files stop working.
> The code is not included.
>
> I've copied the /usa/index.php file to the /intl directory, since it
> renders correctly, and I see the same problem. Them template code is
> not included in the file.
>
> All permissions on the files are correct.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Case
>

Code and a URL would help. Otherwise we're just shooting in the dark.

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Re: Urgent Help Needed- Company website down

On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:08:49 -0400, Jerry Stuckle
wrote:

>
>Code and a URL would help. Otherwise we're just shooting in the dark.

Indeed.
But I suspect an include path problem.
HOW/WHY it suddenly happened is another matter!

Host restored php.ini from a backup?
OP replaced an .htaccess?
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Re: Urgent Help Needed- Company website down

> But I suspect an include path problem.
> HOW/WHY it suddenly happened is another matter!

How and why is not important. Just do not use relative paths for
inclusion unless you know what you are doing. My guesses are:
- Your config has changed (duh!)
- You added a file with the same name in another directory and _that_
file is included if you use relative paths.

Relative paths do not work with respect to the current file, they work
with respect to the called file. That is, they don't work reliably at
all. Instead of:

require_once('library/settings.php');

write

require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/library/settings.php');

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