I'm unable to include files in a folder from the root. Here's something similar to what I'm trying to do.
Root:
-folder1
--folder2 (I need to include stuff in this folder)
-otherfolder1
--otherfolder2
--otherfolder3 (This is my website folder)
This is what I have for my path so far which doesn't work.
define("FOLDER2_ROOT", "/folder1/folder2/");
../ is used to go up one folder.
So according to your situation, you need the following code:
include("../../../folder1/folder2/abc.php");
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I have a small PHP/MySQL project I would like to upload to our subdomain. The project has an includes/ folder that contains some PHP files that have information about the database name, username, password and login function.
How can I make the files of this directory readable by the website (so when someone comes to the website, they can log in and do other stuff) but not accessible to the public? I can use a file downloader to download the content of the folder which is something I want to block.
Is the solution using a .htaccess file?
EDIT:
Thank you all for the answer. After some reading, I switched my folder structure to be like this:
includes/
- initiate.php
- login.inc.php
- functions.inc.php
public/
- index.php
- login.php
templates/
- header.php
- footer.php
I'm now having issues setting up relative and absolute path constants though
The initiate.php has my constant variables:
define('INITIATE_FOLDER', dirname(__FILE__));
define('ROOT_FOLDER', dirname(INITIATE_FOLDER));
define('TEMPLATES', ROOT_FOLDER . '/templates');
define('INCLUDES', ROOT_FOLDER . '/includes');
define('WWW_ROOT', ROOT_FOLDER . '/public');
When I echo out the constants, I get the followings:
echo INITIATE_FOLDER; C:\wamp64\www\project\includes
echo ROOT_FOLDER; C:\wamp64\www\project
echo INCLUDES; C:\wamp64\www\project/includes
echo TEMPLATES; C:\wamp64\www\project/templates
echo WWW_ROOT; C:\wamp64\www\project/public
Can you please tell me what I'm doing wrong and how to correct it?
If your server setup is correct, no PHP file will get downlaoded, only executed.
Basically, you have PHP extension installed nad if the file starts with <?php then it will be executable.
As others have said, all content between <?php ?> tags will be removed from the page before it's served by your server, so long as your file ends in .php.
If you are trying to keep a non-php file from being served, your best bet is to put your includes folder where it is not publicly available.
Generally, when you FTP into your server, the layout is something like this:
www/
public_html/
... etc, other folders
The files you want to make publicly available should go inside of the public_html/www folder (www is usually just a shortcut/symlink for public_html).
You includes directory should go next to the public_html folder, rather than within it.
www/
public_html/
includes/
... etc, other folders
Then, in the files where you were including those files, include them from the new location.
<?php
require_once "includes/databaseSettings.php";
becomes
<?php
require_once "../includes/databaseSettings.php";
Now your files are outside of the directory being served by your HTTP server, but still available to be included in the rest of your code.
This has usually been my experience, but can vary from vendor to vendor. If, when you FTP into your server, you don't see a www or public_html folder, try navigating up one directory.
I've a web site made of some folders, one for each section (info, news, blog etc...).
In each of these folders there is an index.php file that should load a layout (common to all). These are stored in a different folder in the root where there is also the main index.php file (the homepage). So i have something like this:
root
-index.php (home)
-/layout
--layout files
-/info
--index.php`
The index file in the /info folder should include the page layout from /layout.
The problem is that the layout files should include other files from other folders.
In layout files I put this:
include 'contents/page-element.php';
But if I try to reach the same page-element.php file from the index.php file in the /info folder, I should do:
include '../contents/page-element.php';
to go to the root and then reach the /layout folder.
I don't want to create a copy of the layout for the folders so I've tried $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], but it does not work in some cases on the localhost and even on the web server.
Can someone help me or let me know how I can build a dynamic absolute path?
By using the built-in constant __DIR__ you can get your absolute path
by print it or save
echo __DIR__;
it will print something like this for you
C:\Users\user\Desktop\test
and there is also another constant that will get the absolute path for your file that executes the command __FILE__
echo __FILE__;
will give you a result like this
C:\Users\user\Desktop\test\index.php
So I have a web application hosted on a site. The web root (I.E. the files the client can access) is the public_html folder. However, I need to include files outside of the public_html folder. I do this using php include. I get an error no such file or directory. When it shows me the path it is still looking in the public_html folder, which is not where I need it looking.
The code looks like this:
<?php include('../eCommerceCore/shoppingCart.php');?>
I need it to look up one level but it will not search outside of public_html. Also, the file containing the line of code shown above is in the public_html folder if that helps.
Sometimes the current directory isn't what you expect it to be, such as when you include a file from an included file.
I like to use $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] on my includes so that I can always reference them absolutely from the root of my site:
<?php
include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."../eCommerceCore/shoppingCart.php");
?>
Or this way you can try
<?php
include "../eCommerceCore/shoppingCart.php";
?>
If your includes directory is above your document root, you can use .. to still reference from the root.
Is it possible to include file from the ftp's root in a script in a subdomain ?
This doesn't work for me:
include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/joomla.php');
Can someone help me ?
I think first you need to determine where is your subdomain files are placed and echo the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] command to see the full path then you can combine two paths and make necessary adjustments.
Usually but not always, subdomain files are placed in a folder one level up then the main site's root folder so you may need to replace the folder name according to your needs in the output of server document folder function.
To give an example if your domain files are in a path like
/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/
and if your subdomain path is like
/var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdomain/
then you will need to replace httpdocs with subdomain (or the other way around) in the output where you call $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']
Am trying to use a config file for a database and rating script but the problem is the config file is in this directory :
website.com/include/config.php aka websitename/include/config.php
The rating script needs the config and is accessed like this:
include_once("config.php");
I want the config to be in:
"/files/website/"
A directory level up from the website root folder.
I have been trying with:
"../files/website/" and other variations but can not figure out how to link them.
I have managed to put one config file and access it, but with this ajax rating script the only way for it to work is to have the config in the /include/ folder next to:
rating_process.php - has this link : include("inc/config.php");
rating_functions.php - has this link : include_once("config.php");
rating_total_functions.php - has this link : include("inc/config.php");
Hope i've explained myself here
Right, looking at my hosting now:
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; outputs this: /foldy/homepages/11/username/htdocs/webbysite
My index file is located at: /foldy/homepages/11/username/htdocs/webbysite/index.php
The included rating script is located in: /foldy/homepages/11/username/htdocs/webbysite/include/
I want the config to be in /foldy/homepages/11/username/htdocs/secretfiles/config.php
Am trying to some how go out of: webbysite folder and then into secretfiles (sibling folders)
I have tried adding ../ and so on, but am missing something obviously :(
Try
$configLocation = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'../files/website/config.php';
include_once($configLocation)
but the problem is the config file is in this directory
it is not a problem at all.
just keep it as is.
Concerning your particular problem, your problem is that you don't know where you want to put your file. /files/website/ is not likely a right path and it is apparently not one level high from webroot.
So, first of all make your mind about the right path to the directory and it's relative position to the web root
if you are concerned about security ( because your config file contains the db details ) i would place the db config file outside the site root folder and then require_once('../../dbConfig.php') from the script that's creating xml or json for your ajax
more exactly ...
your site folder might be here: /var/www/html
set a virtual host (done differently on Linux and Windows) and point your domain to a sub folder inside /html so that the new path to the site root is /var/www/html/site.
then place your config file in /var/www/html and call it from your scripts inside your /site folder using require_once('../dbConfig.php)`.
your db details are outside the site folder