Jon Based on your include path does the script exist in any of these locations on your server? => /var/www/html/addrbk/Connections/addrbk.php or => /php/includes/Connections/addrbk.php => /usr/share/pear/Connections/addrbk.php If not then that's your problem, else you need to start looking at file/directory permissions... Your include_path setting in php.ini tells php where to look for scripts if a non absolute path is specified on a include/require statement. In your case it will first look in the including script's directory, then the directory /php/includes then the directory /usr/share/pear... Rich -----Original Message----- From: Jon Miller [mailto:jlmiller@mmtnetworks.com.au] Sent: 16 January 2003 10:03 To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Fatal error message I get the following when loading a php file created by Dreamweaver MX using MySQL database and php. Fatal error: Failed opening required 'Connections/addrbk.php' (include_path='.:/php/includes:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/html/addrbk/frmAddr.php on line 1 For the include_path I've used include_path = ".:/php/includes" and still get the same error. I'm not too sure what this path is supposed to be pointing to. Can someone enlighten me on this? setup info: MySQL is on a Linux 7.3 server PHP is on the same server Dreamweaver MX is on Windows 2000. Everything work fine as for as creating the form, just when try to run it I get the message. I should mentioned I just copied the file created to the linux location where the files are supposed to be. Thanks Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS Director/Sr Systems Consultant MMT Networks Pty Ltd http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php