Title: [Plugin: podPress] [Podpress] Fatal Error: require_once() [function.require]
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: podPress] [Podpress] Fatal Error: require_once() [function.require]

 *  [Iyke Charles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iyke-charles/)
 * (@iyke-charles)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-podpress-podpress-fatal-error-require_once-functionrequire/)
 * this is what i get after installing podpress and activating it on my site.
 * Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/
   ravensne/public_html/wp-content/plugins/podpress/podpress_upgrade_class.php’ (
   include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/ravensne/public_html/
   ravens247-content/plugins/podpress/podpress.php on line 221
 * from the podpress plugin, this is line 221 to 225
 *     ```
       if ($podPress_inUpgrade) {
       require_once(ABSPATH.PLUGINDIR.'/podpress/podpress_upgrade_class.php');
       podPress_checkmem('podpress upgrade class loaded');
       $podPress = new podPress_class();
       $podPress = $podPress->update_podpress_class($podpress_version_from_db);
       ```
   
 * Please can anybody out there help me… i am a new be here.
    Thanks alot
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [ntm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ntm/)
 * (@ntm)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-podpress-podpress-fatal-error-require_once-functionrequire/#post-3099452)
 * The error message says that podPress tries to load the file `/home/ravensne/public_html/
   wp-content/plugins/podpress/podpress_upgrade_class.php` – without success.
    The
   cause of the problem might be that the plugin is not in this folder. The last
   part of the message says that the error occurs in the podpress.php file which
   is actually in the folder `/home/ravensne/public_html/ravens247-content/plugins/
   podpress/`.
 * Are the files of the plugins in
    `/home/ravensne/public_html/ravens247-content/`
   or in `/home/ravensne/public_html/wp-content` ?
 * If the plugin is really in `/home/ravensne/public_html/ravens247-content/` then
   the question is why the plugin searches the require file in a different folder.
   As you can see in the code snippet from the podpress.php file podpress builds
   the full path with two constants `ABSPATH` and `PLUGINDIR`. In the moment I can
   not explain why these two should not combine to the real folder of the plugin.
 * You may try the current [Development Version](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/developers/)
   of podPress. It uses a different definition of the folder constant.

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## Tags

 * [fatal error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/fatal-error/)
 * [function.require](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/function-require/)
 * [require_once](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/require_once/)

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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [ntm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ntm/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-podpress-podpress-fatal-error-require_once-functionrequire/#post-3099452)
 * Status: not resolved