Can't Access Directory Above /public_html/

[Turkey Central]

Hello,
I'm trying to store some files in a folder above the root directory. But when I call the file above the public_html directory, I get an error message saying that the file isn't in the "public_html" directory, even though that's not where the path is going.

The file which contains the reference to the file to be included is in:

home/user/public_html/filesystem/

The php reference to the file is this:

file_get_contents('home/user/private/filetest01.txt');

The file being called is:

/home/user/private/filetest01.txt). So the path is trying to get above the "public_html" but is being stopped. I get this warning message:

Warning: file_get_contents(home/user/private/filetest01.txt) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/user/public_html/filesystem/file_get_contents.php on line 10

[regentronique]

Are you sure that your directory is "/home/user/private" and that the file in it is "filetest01.txt"? Watch for the lowercase characters, to be sure...

[regentronique]

We are including few files like "/home/OurAccountName/TheIncludedFile.php" without any problems with many different scripts.

But notice the "/" before the "home", this is quite important to put it there.

[Turkey Central]

Thanks for the help regentroniqe, I'll give that a try! When I was looking at the error message it actually was looking in the correct directory.

[Turkey Central]

Thank you regentronique, that fixed it!