Auto prepend PHP file using htaccess relative to htaccess file

Question

I used:

php_value auto_prepend_file \"file.php\"

in my .htaccess that is in public_html folder.

Now when

Answer 1

The file must be inside PHP's include_path. So you must either set the file's directory to be in the include_path inside php.ini, or do it in the .htaccess with a php_value statement.

php_value include_path ".:/path/to/file_directory"
php_value auto_prepend_file "file.php"

If you use the above method in .htaccess, be sure to copy the include_path from php.ini in and add the :/path_to/file_directory so you don't lose any already needed includes.

Alternatively, just add :/path/to/file_directory to include_path directly in the php.ini

Update

If you cannot modify the include_path, you might try specifying a relative path to the auto_prepend_file. This should work since the file path sent is processed identically as if it was called with require():

php_value auto_prepend_file "./file.php"