On Tuesday 08 June 2004 03:21, Mattias Thorslund wrote:

> In order to keep configuration files outside the web root I use:
>
> include_once('../config.php');
>
> This used to work also when running php scripts from the command line.
> Now I have a new server and I get "no such file or directory" when using
> this construct from the command line.
>
> I have worked around this by doing this:
>
> $main_folder = realpath(dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']).'/..');
> include_once($main_folder . '/config.php');
>
> The original, simpler construct still works when calling the page from a
> web browser, just not when I run it from the command line.
>
> The new server has a more recent version of PHP (4.3.4). I don't have
> the php version of the old server but it was on RedHat 9 - now I'm on
> Mandrake 10.
>
> What could be the difference that caused this?

Possibly:

  manual > Using PHP from the command line > -c switch

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