php errors on new DirectAdmin install

[kbarg]

My php includes and requires no longer work. I am running php 7.4 and the old cpanel server was as well.

Anyone have similar issues?

Debian 10 64bit

DirectAdmin	Running	1.61.5
Dovecot	Running	2.3.11.3 (502c39af9)
Exim	Running	4.94
Apache	Running	2.4.46
MySQL	Running	10.4.17
Named	Running	9.11.5
php	Installed	7.4.13
Pure-FTPd	Running	1.0.49
sshd	Running

 

[Aar]

What is 'doesn't work'?
Can you be a little clearer about what is happening?
Tell more about the errors and your include/require implementation.

 

[kbarg]

As I said, my PHP Includes and Requires NO longer work I thought that was pretty straight forward.

 

[Active8]

@Aar I think he means this: https://www.tutorialrepublic.com/php-tutorial/php-include-files.php
@kbarg how is your system setup ? apache ? nginx ? or different ?

 

[kbarg]

Debian 10 x64
Apache 2.4.46
PHP 7.4.13

I do have a require_once that does work.

My page calls for the ID

<?
    $id = $_GET['id'];
    if ( $id == "home" ) $id = "home";
    if ( !$id || ($id == "") ) $id = "home";
?>

and uses that in conjunction with my whitelist and stuff to display my included pages so pages that are not in the whitelist are not useable.

<?
$whitelist = array('home', 'page1', 'page2', 'page3', 'terms', 'privacy');

if (in_array($_GET['id'], $whitelist)) {
include("/home/USERNAME/public_html/pages/" . $id . ".inc");
} else {
include('/home/USERNAME/public_html/pages/home.inc');
}
?>

I also have stuff put in my .htaccess to remove "index.php?id=" from my URLS and make it so my php pages load like https://domain.com/page1 etc.

#remove .php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

#for pretty url
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ index.php?id=$1 [NC,L]

This set up worked perfectly on my CentOS 7.9 w/ cPanel install before I reinstalled with Debian 10 w/ DirectAdmin.

When googling the problem people MIGHTVE had a similar issue with the symlinked private_html redirecting to the public_html etc.

 

[smtalk]

You seem to be using short open tag, try a full one, or enable short_open_tag in php.ini.

 

[kbarg]

LOL, why was that even an issue.

short_open_tag was ON already is what it said, but once I changed them from <? to <?php everything works. Sorry for the trouble and thank you for your help!

 

[factor]

Some of us are not Coders here... We are Server admins. To a programmer it might be straight forward.

As I said, my PHP Includes and Requires NO longer work I thought that was pretty straight forward.

Glad smtalk helped shed light on issue... glad it's working.

 

[Aar]

The real problem was that the PHP-script wasn't working because the use of the short-tags. <?

You might have placed a few echoes in your script yourself, only to find that it is your PHP script, and not the include and required(_once).