try this $filename='http://www.yourservername.com/banners/add.jpg"; Sridhar --- On Thu, 22/4/10, atkelleden atkelleden <atkelleden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: atkelleden atkelleden <atkelleden@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: file exists problem To: php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thursday, 22 April, 2010, 5:20 PM The following script work fine in my computer (the file exists). but I copy them to a remote server. 'File does not exist' result is returned. $filename = 'C:/banners/ b.jpg'; if (file_exists( $filename) ) { echo "The file $filename exists"; } else { echo "The file $filename does not exist"; } thanks a lot. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]