Include in absolute address

Question

I am trying to include the config.php file that is in the site root folder. However, I also have the header.php file at the root of the site and all the pages are in a folder with this name, so the file is as follows.

<?php
include('../config.php');
include('../header.php'); ?>
conteudo...
</?php include('../footer.php);

For absolute link already tried:

include("http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']."/config.php");

Error displayed on the online server:

I didn’t succeed either. Warning : include(../config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/u655246247/public_html/pages/articles.php online 2

Line 2: that’s exactly where I’m going with this -> include('.. /config.php');.

Answer 1

This is probably what you’re looking for:

include( $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/config.php' );

So you have the absolute path of include in relation to the disk, and not to the website URL.

If you are curious to understand, use this line in a test script:

echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];

The result will be something like /var/www/httpdocs on Linux, or something like c:\apache\httpdocs on Windows.

Notes:

• make sure the file name is correct. Config.php and config.php are not the same file on Linux.

• also make sure that the files involved have read permission to the page server.

• obviously, the file has to be in the same folder as the given path :)