Title: function.require error when loading webpage
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# function.require error when loading webpage

 *  [firstsliveone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/firstsliveone/)
 * (@firstsliveone)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionrequire-error-when-loading-webpage/)
 * Hey everybody. I recently tried to switch servers for my blog at passionispain.
   com and ran into a problem. When I upload the directory to the new server and
   went to my site I got this message:
 * **Fatal error:** require() [[function.require](http://passionispain.com/function.require)]:
   Failed opening required ‘/home/passioni/public_html/wp-includes/load.php’ (include_path
   =’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in **/home/passioni/public_html/wp-settings.
   php** on line **19**
 * My new hosting is [hosting24.com](http://hosting24.com), and I bought my domain
   name from godaddy.com. I already reconfigured the wp-config file and tried changing
   the file permissions on the wp-settings and wp-load files.
 * **Here is line 19 from the wp-settings file:**
 * require( ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/load.php’ );
 * **And here is the wp-load file:**
 * _[please use a [Pastebin](http://pastebin.com/) to post large chunks of code,
   [following forum etiquette](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code)]_
 * Where have I gone wrong and how do I fix it? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
   Thank you.

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionrequire-error-when-loading-webpage/)
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