Warning: require_once(): http:// wrapper is disabled in the server configuration by allow_url_include=0

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I am trying to include a php file in a page via

  require_once(http://localhost/web/a.php)

I am getting an error

 Warning: require_once(): http:// wrapper is disabled in the server configuration by   allow_url_include=0

I changed allow_url_include=1 in the php.ini and that worked but I don't think that everybody will let me change their php.ini file.

So, is there any way to accomplish this?

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asked Apr 25 '14 at 6:17

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The warning is generated because you are using a full URL for the file that you are including. This is NOT the right way because this way you are going to get some HTML from the webserver. Use:

require_once('../web/a.php');

so that webserver could EXECUTE the script and deliver its output, instead of just serving up the source code (your current case which leads to the warning).

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answered Apr 25 '14 at 6:26

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I had this same error while trying to include a PHP file in my Wordpress theme. I was able to get around it by referencing the file name using dirname(__FILE__). I couldn't use relative paths since my file was going to be included in different places throughout the theme, so something like require_once '../path-to/my-file' wouldn't work.

Replacing require_once get_template_directory_uri() . '/path-to/my-file' with require_once dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/path-to/my-file' did the trick.

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answered Oct 6 '15 at 15:38

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try to use

<?php require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/web/a.php'); ?>