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Bug #16450 Failed opening . for inclusion (include_p='.:/../lib/php') in Unknown on line 0
Submitted: 2002-04-05 07:35 UTC Modified: 2002-06-11 12:38 UTC
From: info at headliner dot nl Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 4.1.2 OS: SunOS
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-04-05 07:35 UTC] info at headliner dot nl 
If I request any php file that does not exist in the current path I always get:

Warning: Failed opening '/path/to/file.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/php-4.1.2/lib/php') in Unknown on line 0

when I try for example to open "http://www.host.com/doesnt_exist.php" I get the error, though when I try "http://www.host.com/dir/doesnt_exist.php" and the directory "dir" does not exist I get a normal 404 error. But when directory "dir" DOES exist I get the Failed opening error again.

It only happens when I try to open files with the extension that is parsed by the php deamon (I included .html and .php)
so:

"http://www.host.com/doesnt_exist.php" gives failed...
"http://www.host.com/doesnt_exist.html" gives failed...
"http://www.host.com/doesnt_exist.txt" gives normal 404 error
"http://www.host.com/not_here/doesnt_exist.php" gives normal 404
"http://www.host.com/here/doesnt_exist.php" gives failed...

I use php 4.1.2 and apache 1.3.20 and happened when I upgraded to 4.1.2.

Configure Command:  './configure' '--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache-1.3.20/bin/apxs' '--enable-track-vars' '--with-gdbm=/usr/local/gnu' '--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php-4.1.2/lib' '--with-mhash=/usr/local' '--with-zlib=/usr/local' '--with-gd' '--with-ttf' '--prefix=/usr/local/php-4.1.2' 

in the phpinfo() also:
include_path: .:/usr/local/php-4.1.2/lib/php

.: is correct??

Everything except accessing non existing files works perfectly

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 [2002-04-05 07:54 UTC] tal@php.net 
Trying to access non-existent files should produce an error, and according to you it does.

Tal
 [2002-04-05 08:00 UTC] derick@php.net 
Please try php 4.2.0rc2 from www.php.net/~derick and then try the following things:
- Does it still happen now?
- What happens if you remove .html from your parsed-by-php extensions?

Derick
 [2002-04-05 08:12 UTC] info at headliner dot nl 
indeed, but it should produce a 404 error through the header so the browser knows it does not exist. But instead it produces a text error: 
"Warning: Failed opening '/path/to/file.php' for inclusion
(include_path='.:/usr/local/php-4.1.2/lib/php') in Unknown on line 0"

so more technically:

the url "www.host.com/doesnt_exist.php" gives:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 13:09:06 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a PHP/4.1.2
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.1.2
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

<br>
<b>Warning</b>:  Failed opening '/vol/www/headliner/web-docs/blaat.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/php-4.1.2/lib/php') in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br>

and "www.host.com/nothere/doesnt_exist.php" gives:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 13:09:56 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a PHP/4.1.2
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

when I remove the .html extension I get a good error 404 error message, I didn't install 4.2.0rc2 yet since I'm not root on it personally but I'll ask my provider.
 [2002-06-11 12:38 UTC] info at headliner dot nl 
finally my webhoster installed php latest version and the bug is not there anymore.
 
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