PHP includes not working

I'm using includes in my PHP, but get the following error on the browser:

PHP Warning: main(/commonBegin.php): failed to open stream: No such
file or directory in E:\web\axisreporti\htdocs\application.php on line
9 PHP Warning: main(): Failed opening '/commonBegin.php' for inclusion
(include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in
E:\web\axisreporti\htdocs\application.php on line 9

the code I'm using is:

include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].('/include/commonBegin.php');

anyone have any ideas what could be wrong? I thought that the PHP.ini file would need to be modified to the directory in which my site resides, but the tech support team didn't think so.

thanks

 

figured it out. just made include relative.

thanks