I have a static HTML header and footer included site wide via php include (php/navigation) and (php/footer.php) respectively.
The page interprets and includes all the of the above on WAMP with no errors (with either include or require) but when moved to my (LAMP) server the header and footer files are ignored (if i use require -- page displays nothing, so I know there is an error but I haven't been able to track it down)
other php includes in between the header and footer includes are read and displayed correctly and if i cut the the navigation.php and add it in place of the include it renders correctly -- but obviously i would rather avoid this approach.