.htaccess php_value include_path not working

Question

I have a small project in local. I'm working under Windows and with XAMPP. My file directory structure is:

Root directory:

C:\xampp\htdocs\routes

Under this folder, I have my bootstrap.php with the configuration I want to initialize my project.

Public folder:

C:\xampp\htdocs\routes\htdocs

Under this folder I have my index.php and my .htaccess.

Inside this .htaccess I have the following configuration:

php_value include_path .:/routes
php_value auto_prepend_file bootstrap.php

If I do a get_include_path() inside the index.php, it shows ".:/routes". But the message I get on my web browsers (after typing http://localhost/routes/htdocs) all the time is:

Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required 'bootstrap.php' (include_path='.:/routes') in Unknown on line 0

I have tried a lot of combinations of include_path inside the .htaccess:

php_value include_path ".:/routes"
php_value include_path .:../routes
php_value include_path ".:./routes"
php_value include_path ".:routes"
...

The configuration of my httpd.conf is:

DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
<Directory />
    AllowOverride none
    Require all denied
</Directory>
<Directory /routes>
    AllowOverride all
</Directory>

If I hard code the info in bootstrap inside the index.php, it works (at least this tells me the requirements inside bootstrap are well configured). I don't know what to do for my project to recognize the bootstrap.php.

What am I missing? What am I doing wrong?

Thank you in advance for your help

have you tried omitting Require all denied? if it's trying to include a file from the root folder then this may be preventing it from doing so — verbumSapienti
Yes, I've tried. And nothing. I tried also "AllowOverride all" inside <Directory />. It didn't work so I created the <Directory /routes> — pmguti

tropicalm tropicalm · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-24T09:09:33

First, the <Directory> block has no effect for include. Since this is not an Apache query, but rather a preprocessing order.
Second, use absolute paths in your include_path, to make it independent from where your files are sitting.
Third, make sure the path to bootstrap.php is openable by the user your webserver runs as, and that the file itself is readable.

.htaccess php_value include_path not working

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