Include file from different account on same server

How can I include a file from a different account on my server?

[vanillaice]

Hey there,

I am running a vps box with a few different accounts set up. I own them all, so I have full access to permissions and such, my question is this.

How can I include a file from a different account on my box?

I tried doing this method:

<?php include ('/home/account1/public_html/includes/file.txt') ?>

But get an error message because I'm trying to do it from /home/account2

How would I go about making a global include file?

Thank you!

[penders]

If URL_fopen_wrappers are enabled then you could perhaps do:

<?php include ('http://example.com/includes/file.txt') ?>

However, this is different to including a 'local' file. The file is processed at the 'remote' server. See PHP Manual: include() [uk3.php.net].

[vanillaice]

Yea, right now I'm using file_get_contents which essentially does the same thing. I was trying to find a way to skip the remote calls.

[Philosopher]

nope...there's no real way to skip the remote calls as both accounts are seen as completely separate servers. Allowing calls between accounts like that locally would open up some big-time security issues.

[penders]

Can you modify the include_path - perhaps in php.ini? - actually I think that will just be the same as directly specifying the path in include()?

If you specify the appropriate path to the other account, what error do you get? A permissions problem?

There must be a way to relax the perms between accounts - I would have thought?! This is beginning to sound more like an Apache server config issue rather than PHP? But I'm guessing now.