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Re: Getting the website document root portably (Apache, IIS, maybe others) and simply

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On 13/11/14 17:28, James Harris wrote:
> This is a question that has been asked before but there seems no consensus
> in the answers given out there in internet land so I wonder if folks on this
> newsgroup can recommend a currently accepted best-practice solution. What
> should a PHP file do in order to find out the "document root"? I am looking
> for a solution that is portable across different web servers and OSes and is
> simple enough to be present verbatim on any page which needs such info.

This depends on the webserver used, which method of how PHP is used 
(mod_php, php-fpm, fastcgi and so on) togehter with the webserver and 
even if you have the DOCUMENT_ROOT, it may not be pointing on the 
directory you think it may be.

You will simply have to figure it out for each webserver and how the php 
is used and hope that the configuration will not be using rewrites to 
lessen the restart of the webservise when hosting a large number of 
sites (then you will have a DOCUMENT_ROOT which includes all the users 
home directories) and then make cases for those options and from phpinfo 
determine which method needs to be used.


-- 

  //Aho

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Getting the website document root portably (Apache, IIS, maybe others) and simply "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-11-13 16:28 +0000
  Re: Getting the website document root portably (Apache, IIS, maybe others) and simply "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2014-11-13 18:38 +0100
    Re: Getting the website document root portably (Apache, IIS, maybe others) and simply Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com> - 2014-11-13 14:32 -0500
      Re: Getting the website document root portably (Apache, IIS, maybe others) and simply "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-11-13 20:58 +0100
      Re: Getting the website document root portably (Apache, IIS, maybe others) and simply "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-11-13 20:06 +0000
    Re: Getting the website document root portably (Apache, IIS, maybe others) and simply crankypuss <crankypuss@nomail.invalid> - 2014-11-14 02:35 -0700
  Re: Getting the website document root portably (Apache, IIS, maybe others) and simply "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-11-13 21:04 +0100
  Re: Getting the website document root portably (Apache, IIS, maybe others) and simply "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2014-11-13 21:53 +0100
  Re: Getting the website document root portably (Apache, IIS, maybe others) and simply Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-13 22:54 +0100

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