How to Require files from outside document root PHP

[TheComputerdude]

So I am a total php noob so fell free to point any major issues out. Anyways I have a web server running the latest versions of apache and php on ubuntu 16.04.

 

So here is the issue. I need to use composer. I have installed composer. Now I need to use the autoload function. In theory to do this all you do is require autoload.php which is located in /root/vendor. So I try

require __DIR__ . '/root/vendor/autoload.php';

I get a warning followed by a fatal error with basically the same message 

Quote

require(/var/www/html/sandbox5678/StreamIt/root/vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/sandbox5678/StreamIt/index.php on line 6

 

 

The key part of the above is No such file or directory in /var/www/HTML/sandbox5678/StreamIt/index.php on line 6 

This tells me that php is looking only in the folder where the file is running my question is how do I make it look somewhere else???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[Hazy125]

So, your include is actually something more like

 /var/www/html/sandbox5678/StreamIt/var/www/html/sandbox5678/StreamIt/root/vendor/autoload.php

 

if that makes sense. When you include in PHP, it's a relative path, relative to where the PHP file you're including to is located. So if your file is in the streamit directory and you want to include autoload.php you would use include('root/vendor/autoload.php');

 

[TheComputerdude]

15 hours ago, Hazy125 said:

So, your include is actually something more like

 /var/www/html/sandbox5678/StreamIt/var/www/html/sandbox5678/StreamIt/root/vendor/autoload.php

 

if that makes sense. When you include in PHP, it's a relative path, relative to where the PHP file you're including to is located. So if your file is in the streamit directory and you want to include autoload.php you would use include('root/vendor/autoload.php');

 

Ok that worked a bit but now I get new errors

 

Warning: include(/root/vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/sandbox5678/StreamIt/index.php on line 6

Warning: include(): Failed opening '/root/vendor/autoload.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/html/sandbox5678/StreamIt/index.php on line 6

 

[vorticalbox]

33 minutes ago, TheComputerdude said:

Ok that worked a bit but now I get new errors

 

Warning: include(/root/vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/sandbox5678/StreamIt/index.php on line 6

Warning: include(): Failed opening '/root/vendor/autoload.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/html/sandbox5678/StreamIt/index.php on line 6

 

the user php is running as needs permission to read the file.

 

you can use ../ to move one Dir above.

 

If you were in /var/www/ ../ would out you in var and ../../ would put you in / 

[Fetzie]

On 13/08/2017 at 9:31 PM, TheComputerdude said:

Ok that worked a bit but now I get new errors

 

Warning: include(/root/vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/sandbox5678/StreamIt/index.php on line 6

Warning: include(): Failed opening '/root/vendor/autoload.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/html/sandbox5678/StreamIt/index.php on line 6

 

Your webserver does not have permission to read the file at /root/vendor/autoload.php

 

/root/ is the home directory of the "root" user.