Exception.php — 'No such file or directory', although there is one.

[homespunphilosopher]

Problem description

My comments in [].

Warning: require(/PHPMailer/src/Exception.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Library/WebServer/Documents/sites/cognitorum/sendPHPMailer.php on line 7 — [in fact, there is one for Exeption.php]

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Failed opening required '/PHPMailer/src/Exception.php' (include_path='.:/opt/homebrew/Cellar/php/8.2.3/share/php/pear') — [the path is correct, although in fact it starts from '/'] — in /Library/WebServer/Documents/sites/cognitorum/sendPHPMailer.php:7 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in /Library/WebServer/Documents/sites/cognitorum/sendPHPMailer.php on line 7

Code to reproduce

// Load PHPMailer

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;

require '/PHPMailer/src/Exception.php';
require '/PHPMailer/src/PHPMailer.php';
require '/PHPMailer/src/SMTP.php';

Debug output

[Synchro]

You're using absolute paths when they should be relative. Try removing the leading / from them to start with. This would also be a good time to learn how to use composer.