Search for the include path in /etc/php.ini (or wherever you installed php.ini) it is probably not set to look in . This is also a compile-time option. You can also check out how it is set by using phpinfo() in a file: name it phpinfo.php and load it in your browser. On 8 May 2003, Bill Warner wrote: > I am working on setting up a php apache mysql debian box for a friend. > I am not a php programmer but there is something strange going on. On a > machine with php 4.1.7 compiled from source the > require_once("file.db.php"); > works but useing the debian package it doesn't seem to work right. > unless it has only one dot in the file name like: > require_once("filedb.php"); > is this a php compile option of some kind? This just doesn't seem > right. Does anyone know what I'm talking about. > > Thanks > -- Patrick Fleming, EA Licensed to represent taxpayers before Exam, Appeals, and Conference divisions of the IRS