Title: Require file missing error
Last modified: March 10, 2020

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# Require file missing error

 *  Resolved [WooCart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woocart/)
 * (@woocart)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/require-file-missing-error/)
 * Hey,
 * PHP is throwing this error:
 * require_once(): Failed opening required ‘includes/functions-common.php’ in “wp-
   content/plugins/pixelyoursite/pixelyoursite.php”.
 * The required file seems to be missing from the plugin. Can you please check and
   verify this?

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 *  Plugin Author [PixelYourSite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pixelyoursite/)
 * (@pixelyoursite)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/require-file-missing-error/#post-12529708)
 * Hi,
 * Please give me more details about how you installed the plugin.
 * It would be quite strange to have a missing file.
 *  Thread Starter [WooCart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woocart/)
 * (@woocart)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/require-file-missing-error/#post-12529812)
 * Not sure about why the error popped up even when the file is present in the includes
   folder. One suggestion which I can make is to include the absolute path to the
   file instead of relative one.
 * For ex:
    Instead of ‘includes/functions-common.php’ you can go for the following:
 * -> require_once PYS_FREE_PATH . ‘/includes/functions-common.php’
 * I am hoping this should fix any of the path related issues with the plugin.
    
   Hope this helps 🙂

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 * Last activity: [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/require-file-missing-error/#post-12529812)
 * Status: resolved