From local to remote...having server pathing issues.

[eluser]cahva[/eluser]
[quote author="mcr_rm" date="1263443127"]The problem here is you have stuck the index (probably rightly) into html which on that server looks like the web root folder i.e. the viewable web files.

In this context the index file is pointing up a folder in the structure correctly but when you use relative paths like that in a web root the highest level you can go is the root regardless so in your case the folder the index is already in.
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I allways put app and system folders outside of www-root and use '../application' and '../system' in the index.php file. This works on windows, linux and freebsd systems with mod_php and cgi. It shouldnt matter whether to use absolute or relative path in this case.

I suspect that this is more like a file permission issue so check those. Settings and filestructure seems to be ok(as those worked on local).