Xataface Forums

Hi everybody

I am posting for the first time here.
Steve, first of all: This is a fantastic piece of software; very good idea and obviously very well done! Thanks for sharing with us!

I played around with Xataface on my local machine and everything worked perfectly.
However I run into some problems when I tried to create applications on a shared hosting (I tried 3 different servers). Everything is fine when I am pointing to dataface/dataface_info.php ("Installed correctly").
Now, pointing to index.php it says:

Warning: require_once() [function.require-once.php]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/domain/public_html/folder/index.php on line 2

Warning: require_once(http://www.domain.com/folder/xataface/d ... ic-api.php) [function.require-once.php]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/domain/public_html/folder/index.php on line 2

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require.php]: Failed opening required 'http://www.domain.com/folder/xataface/dataface-public-api.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/domain/public_html/folder/index.php on line 2

My index.php looks like this:

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require_once 'http://www.domain.com/folder/xataface/dataface-public-api.php';
df_init(__FILE__, 'http://www.domain.com/folder/xataface');
$app =& Dataface_Application::getInstance();
$app->display();


What am I doing wrong? Or are there already at this stage some server side PHP restrictions involved?

Hey,

Have you tried looking in your web server's error log?

You also might try changing the path for the "require_once" line to the absolute path in your file system (i.e. /srv/www/htdocs/xataface/dataface-public-api.php, this varies based on your OS and which web server you're running). Thats how it is in both of my installations.


Mike

mikep,

that was it! So simple, I just adjusted the path to the server's file system...
I am really sorry for bothering you with this!

Now it works, although I only get a very basic site, just white and some links. Obviously it doesn't load the css style sheet.

Could you get me a second hint?
Many thanks in advance!

Hey,

That usually happens when the df_init(__FILE__, line has the incorrect url. For instance if you have 'http://localhost/folder/xataface' in your index.php file and try to access http://www.domain.com/folder/xataface/index.php from your web browser.


Mike

Brilliant!
Now it works. Obviously as a non programmer I got a little confused about the different paths.

In case somebody is stumbling as well in the future and is looking in the forum:

index.php
* require_once needs the absolute path of your server's file system (in my case it was: '/home/user/public_html/folder/xataface/dataface-public-api.php')

* df_init(__FILE__, needs the url of your xataface installation (e.g. 'http://www.domain.com/folder/xataface')

mikep, many thanks for your help!

In case somebody is stumbling as well in the future and is looking in the forum:

index.php
* require_once needs the absolute path of your server's file system (in my case it was: '/home/user/public_html/folder/xataface/dataface-public-api.php')

* df_init(__FILE__, needs the url of your xataface installation (e.g. 'http://www.domain.com/folder/xataface')

Just want to make a comment this you can also use relative paths for these. E.g.

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require_once 'xataface/dataface-public-api.php';
df_init(__FILE__, 'xataface');


But absolute paths are fine too.

The Xataface installer uses absolute paths because it may not have complete knowledge of where your application will end up.

Both ways are fine.