Why I'm getting the PHP Fatal error in following scenario?

Question

I'm using LAMP on my local machine. I'm getting the following error in apache error log and a blank web page in browser when I hit the URL:http://localhost/smart-rebate-web/web/admin/forgot_password.php

Following is the error I got in apache error log:

[Tue Apr 15 17:10:18 2014] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error:  require_once(): Failed opening required 'includes/public-application-header.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/smart-rebate-web/web/admin/forgot_password.php on line 2, referer: http://localhost/smart-rebate-web/web/admin/login.php?lout=1

For your reference I'm attaching the image of my project structure titled 'smart-rebate-web' in Netbeans editor. and following is the sceenshot of abrwser after I hit the URL :

http://localhost/smart-rebate-web/web/admin/forgot_password.php

So can anyone please help me in resolving this issue please? Thanks in advance. If you want any further information or any code I can provide you the same. Following asre the permissons of these files if I print in terminal:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 eywa eywa 1646 Apr 14 13:05 application-header.php
-rw------- 1 eywa eywa 1006 Apr 10 18:06 public-application-header.php

Answer 1

You have permission issue. According to your current file permission, only file owner can read and write that file, others cannot read. When you go on browser, default www-data user tries to read that file. And it is not permitted. Make your file 644 or change file owner to www-data. ``www-data` is the apache user used while you open php files from browser. And more flexible way, use following;

require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . "/includes/public-application-header.php");

Answer 2

Try using

require_once('web/admin/includes/<filename>');