trouble with require_once failed to open stream: No such file or directory

Question

I'm getting the following error when trying to open the index file of a project that I am taking over on:

Warning: require_once(core_services/logging.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/app/docroot/www.website.com/index.php on line 7

Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'core_services/logging.php' (include_path='.:/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php') in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/app/docroot/www.website.com/index.php on line 7

The code the error refers to looks like this:

7 require_once "core_services/logging.php";
8 $logger=new syslog_class(__FILE__,LOG_DEBUG);

I checked to make sure the filepath exists by defining it and echoing it back as well as the contents of logging.phpin terminal and that returns just fine and when I get the current working directory on line 6, it returns /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/app/docroot/www.website.com, which I am assuming is defining my root folder.

Not sure exactly how to go about resolving this problem and if anyone has any ideas on approach, I would love to hear them as my PHP is a bit rusty and lacking outside of the context of wordpress.

edit: approaches I've tried so far

require 'core_services/logging.php';
require '/core_services/logging.php';
require './core_services/logging.php';
require '../core_services/logging.php';
require '/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/app/docroot/www.website.com/core_services/logging.php';
require realpath(dirname(__FILE__)) .'/core_services/logging.php';
require(__DIR__"/../core_services/logging.php");

require_once 'core_services/logging.php';
require_once '/core_services/logging.php';
require_once './core_services/logging.php';
require_once '../core_services/logging.php';
require_once '/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/app/docroot/www.website.com/core_services/logging.php';
require_once realpath(dirname(__FILE__)) .'/core_services/logging.php';
require_once __DIR__"/../core_services/logging.php";

I have also verified that it is not a permissions issue.

Try `require_once realpath(dirname(__FILE__)) .'/core_services/logging.php';` — icecub, Aug 12 '17 at 21:19
no luck on this approach, it returns the same error and just updating the attempted file path. — jywbz, Aug 15 '17 at 02:06

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 12 '17 at 21:15

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Try specifying full path:

require './core_services/logging.php';
//OR
require '/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/app/docroot/www.website.com/core_services/logging.php';

answered Aug 12 '17 at 21:15

btc4cash

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Neither of those approaches work unfortunately. I get the same error only with updated file paths. – jywbz Aug 15 '17 at 02:07
Are you on Windows or Linux? – btc4cash Aug 16 '17 at 17:09
Mac actually, using XAMPP – jywbz Aug 17 '17 at 17:54
Not sure about but could it be another file format/name ? I mean, all look good – btc4cash Aug 17 '17 at 18:08

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