Can't get Pear to work, could be include_path problem

Hi,

I am running Fedora Core5 and have PHP5.1.4 installed under apache 2.2.0.

I have installed php extension for mysqli through yum.And I have installed PEAR, MDB2 and MDB2_Driver_mysqli.

The path to the PEAR dir is set in php.ini:
>include_path = .:/usr/share/pear

The place my code is failing is right at the begining of an example.php:
>require 'MDB2.php';

it's giving me:
Warning: require(MDB2.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/my-web-space/user/htdocs/example.php on line 8

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'MDB2.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /home/my-web-space/user/htdocs/example.php on line 8

So I checked the /usr/share/pear dir and the file is there...

Is this a user permission issue from the script calling from the home/my-web-space/user/htdocs/ dir??

Has anyone got any ideas please, I've been trying to work this out for hours.

Thanks, Tom

Sounds like you are having problems with your paths. if it was a permissions issue - the error would have said that.

I checked the paths, they're are ok - I found a fix but i' mnot all together comfortable with it - it's messy:

I have installed pear into home directories like it's on a shared host and have put the path_include to pear into .htaccess files.

It works.

Any ideas how to solve the initial problem?