It’s a server configuration issue. Contact your hosts.
Thanks … unfortunately I’m stuck in a zero support hole with media temple (switching soon, god willing). Any clue what it really means? a path wrong? A permissions thing?
The server is locked down too tightly. Looks like you can’t check for a file outside of the web root. Incidentally, what is a file called db.php doing in the wp-content folder? Is this a custom script of yours?
Good question… no idea! I inherited the site. … that’s not a standard WP file? I may have more sleuthing to do here…
Ah ha… thanks for helping. Looks like it was some legacy from a hosting provider. There was some hidden stuff in the plugins folder… deleted, and problem gone!