http://serverfault.com – Heres the basics: we've just switched host we only have 2 sites hosted on this server, no one but me has access on our other host, we could include and write server wide, for example: /home/sitea could include: <?php include("/home/siteb/public_html/script.php"); ?> We now get errors such as: [function.include]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in... We could (HowTos)