I know (NOW!) that I shouldn't have installed PHP or Apache in a directory where there is a space in the path string (Like "H:\program files\,mydir\.) But I really don't want to have to reinstall everthing to fix the problem. I'm running PHP with Apache as a local host on my Win XP system, but I get into trouble when I try to use include_once in my php script for a page. The file, myfile.php, I want to include is in the SAME directory as the script file. Is there a way to specify this in the argument for include_once? For testing, I added If (!file_exists("Somepathname/myfile.php")){ die ("File path is wrong!");} I've tried many variations on "Somepathname" (with both forward and backward slashes), but they all fail. Is there a way out of this mess? TIA for any help on this. Robert -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php