PHP Include function

I'm building a web front end for a postfix server that will allow specific users to add an IP address to the allowed relay list. The problem I ran into is that I'm running the VERY lightweight page on the actual server itself and I wanted to wrap the Intranet site that the company is familiar with around my little contribution to the tech support effort.

I knew that the include and/or require function would go and "get" the file for me but I couldnt make it work. I read many forums answers to this and the answer was always turn on allow_url_fopen. It was on by default, so I scrolled down an viola found a directive to allow_url_include, it was turned off. Turned it on, restated apache and success.

So, now my php statement fopen(https://sitename/path/to/file","r"); works!

Just in case someone else stumbles upon this, hope I was helpful.

I have not idea of the security repercussions so proceed at your own risks. I'm still in dev so I have an excuse.