I just started working on a new magento site and when I moved it to my local I got the below error on my nginx server.
2016/09/14 13:38:41 [error] 7#7: *13 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Warning: require(/var/www/html/app/bootstrap.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/index.php on line 64
I simply removed that line from index.php, but what's that file for? Why is it in some Magento installs? It's a Magento ver. 1.9.0.1 install.
app/bootstrap.php file should be provided in the package you have used
Anyways, in Magento 1.9 that file just provides a workaround for some libxml PHP bugs
/**
* Apply workaround for the libxml PHP bugs:
* @link https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62577
* @link https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64938
*/
if (function_exists('libxml_disable_entity_loader')) {
libxml_disable_entity_loader(false);
}
Bootstrap.php performs essential initialization required to run magento you can find more detail here
