php.ini and include path changed in plesk 8.0

[interversal]

Hi, this is just to let people know of a problem I had when installing plesk 8.0 from 7.54.
I had mysql 4.18 and Zend optimizer.

After the upgrade many of my php sites displayed an error like this:

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'include/utils/security_utils.php' for inclusion (include_path='\')

After resetting permissions, trying to do a restore but discovering that 8.0 can't read 7.5 backups. I thought I was stumpted.
Then I came across a fix on a forum that said:


i figured it out... in the php.ini file include_path must be exactly this:
----
.:/usr/local/lib/php
----
or in my case it needed to be
include_path=".:var/lib/php"

And that's in /etc/php.ini in my case
You can find out what your include_path is by running a php file with exaclty this in it

<? echo phpinfo(); ?>

no spaces before or after.

I hope this helps some people and saved you the 10 hours it took me to figure out.
It affected my mambo templates and zen cart installs.

Cheers
Glenn

 

[albans]

I had almost the same problem...
It was due to a precedent install of Zend Optimizer on 7.5.4.

I had a new php.ini of 5 lines length after the upgrade to 8... I had to use an old backed-up php.ini.

See this thread: http://forum.swsoft.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32219

 

[interversal]

ah yes. that's done it

Now I've got zend back my php pages are working like a treat again,

woopee!

Thanks
glennn

 

[Mateo1041]

include_path=".:var/lib/php"

Thanks SOOOOOO much for the path!! It just solved a week old mystery! For some lame reason Plesk was defaulting to ".:" for me.

 

[interversal]

tis cool

I've been adding the useful stuff I use over and over again in plesk to a blog.
Plesk Useful Commands.
But I'd forgotten about that one