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Hi,

I’m attempting to install an instance of ExpressionEngine 1.6.9 onto a Windows 2008 R2 64 bit Server with IIS7.5 under PHP 5.3.2 with mySQL 5.1.45 and I’m getting the error:

“Warning: include(./control/core/core.system.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in D:\Websites-Expression\*****\index.php on line 120 Warning: include(): Failed opening ‘./control/core/core.system.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\PHP\\pear;OP\\pear’) in D:\Websites-Expression\***** \index.php on line 120 The system path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open your path.php file and correct the path.”

[This is with the “error_reporting(E_ALL);” entry in index.php in place]
I’ve taken a look at all the various reports of this and tried a number of combinations of “./control/”, “../control/”, “control/”, “~/control/” etc in the “$system_path = “./control/”;” entry on line 9 of the path.php file in the root – All to no avail.

I’ve also verified that it’s not a permissions issue – I [temporarily] set the root and all files below it to ‘Everyone – Read’ – still didn’t work.

The PHP-mySQL-IIS7 Stack works fine - I have Mediawiki sites installed and running and the control panel is accessible from http://*****/control/index.php

Any ideas?

Hi, futurestudios. I don’t believe we’ve seen anyone use your exact setup with EE1.6.9. About the only thing I can suggest is to put in a full system path in that setting.

What I do is create a .php file called whereami.php and FTP it up to your server, then visit it using your browser.

Here’s the contents of the file:

<?php echo realpath(dirname(__FILE__)) . '/'; ?>

The resulting text the server path.
Does that help?

When placing the “WhereAmI.php” into the root filespace, I get a response of ‘/’
If I place the same file in the control subdirectory {i.e. renamed system directory}, I - unusually - get the following:

D:\Websites-Expression\*****\control/

Note the ‘mixed’ forward and backslashes…
I then took another look at the General settings under Admin and couldn’t see anything there

So that I am clear on the issue of “full system path” can you provide me with an example

Thanks for the quick response - any more ideas? 😊

You get the mixed \ and / because the script is adding / at the end of the path. 😊 You’d use the server path with a trailing \ instead of a /.

Try: D:\Websites-Expression\*****\control\ instead.

mmmm….

The original SystemPath variable line in the path.php [Line 9] was:

$system_path = “./control/”
which I changed to:
$system_path = “D:\Websites-Expression\*****\control”

... and it worked!

What puzzles me is that the first [original] entry is a relative reference to the root and the second is an absolute filespace reference.
I assume that the code is bright enough to determine which is intended…

Thanks for your help, Sue. much appreciated.

I don’t know why it didn’t, but I’m glad it’s working for you.. Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.