I am going through a very sticky problem. I am running this script from one domain
  (churchsiteonline.com)in the same server where the other domain (sermonnetwork.com) is
  also present. I want to open a directory of sermonnetwork.com from the place where the
  script is running.

  But, i am getting the E_WARNNING : "failed to open directory invalid path given" always.
  where as the path is correct.

  As per my server description i am running on windows 2003 with IIS and PHP 4.3
  configure with it.

  Please, give your suggestion if anyone also face the same acute problem which i am
  facing right now. (I've also use the chdir() function. but do not get any good result.)

  below is code snippet which i tried.
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   #Set the path.
   $basePath = "C:\\Inetpub\\vhosts\\sermonnetwork.com\\httpdocs\ \diba\\";

   //chdir($basePath);

      // Open a known directory, and proceed to read its contents
      if (is_dir($basePath)) {
              if ($dh = opendir($basePath)) {
               while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
                   echo "filename: $file : filetype: " . filetype($basePath . file) . "\n";
               }
               closedir($dh);
           }
      }
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  thanks


dibakar

if your is script on the same server try to use relative path such as /diba/basepath