php require_once not finding file with absolute path?

Question

I just started setting up the google ads php library and right off the bat am having super frustrating troubles.

I'm running Arch Linux, and I have all my files in /var/lib/googleads

Trying to run GetRefreshToken.php, it requires a file called init.php in the same directory. Here is that line:

require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/init.php';

When I run this php file, I get this error:

Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '/var/lib/googleads/examples/AdWords/Auth/init.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /var/lib/googleads/examples/AdWords/Auth/GetRefreshToken.php on line 30

Even though as you can clearly see, the absolute path it's looking for is correct, and I even have it set at 777 permissions for now.

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1.4K Nov 20 10:17 /var/lib/googleads/examples/AdWords/Auth/init.php

NO idea what's going on here. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

change this (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') to its correct path in your init.php or GetRefreshToken.php

Answer 2

I know this was quick, but I thought I'd post the answer for anyone else who runs across this problem.

PHP didn't have access to files in /var/lib, which I found is set by the open_basedir line in php.ini, so I added /var/lib to that line and all is working correctly.

open_basedir = /var/www:/home/:/tmp/:/usr/share/pear/:/var/named/:/root/:/var/lib/:

Hopefully this can help someone down the road!