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| From | "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.php |
| Subject | Re: Getting the website document root portably (Apache, IIS, maybe others) and simply |
| Date | 2014-11-13 21:53 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <cckk2rF6dq5U1@mid.uni-berlin.de> (permalink) |
| References | <m42m6j$6vd$1@dont-email.me> |
On 13.11.2014 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. > My 2 ยข In a code base serving several virtual hosts from the same location (apache2 ServerAlias, or completely separate) I started putting the document root in a db config table, so I would have an easy way to combine or separate document roots depending on server names (HTTP_HOST). Together with a config file named after _SERVER[HTTP_HOST] this gave me (and the app) flexibility and stability. /Str.
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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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