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Karina Seidel
Karina Seidel
8,605 Points
Posted by Karina Seidel
Karina Seidel
8,605 Points

How to make a website - Deleted everything on Cyberduck :(

help. I deleted my cyberduck stuff..now my website shows Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/hikarina/public_html/wp-blog-header.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php53/pear') in /home/hikarina/public_html/index.php on line 17 :/ - please help me. it seems like the about and contact stuff from the "how to make a website" course still exist.

ivomiranda
ivomiranda
30,286 Points

Do you have any backup of your website? Cyberduck is like Filezilla right? If you have deleted everything from your host and you don't have a backup anywhere you have to contact your hosting provider about the situation. They might have a backup.

2 Answers

Steve Tenpas
Steve Tenpas
6,234 Points

just a guess but your web host may have a back up of your files.

Kern Tallett
Kern Tallett
10,012 Points
Kern Tallett
Kern Tallett
10,012 Points

I believe the problem is the forward slash before the path.

This gentleman off of stackoverflow explains it so much better than i could so here it is.

Your path is preceded by a forward slash (/).

In a POSIX compliant system, if you have a path that starts with a forward slash, it means that it is an absolute path. The first forward slash represents the root of the filesystem.

Remove the forward slash from your path and you should then have a path that is relative to page.php.

EDIT: Since relative paths won't work, you can use dirname(FILE) to get the absolute path of the directory where the current file resides.

require(dirname(FILE) . '/includes/sess-start.php');

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5437453/php-fatal-error-failed-opening-required