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Posted by dorayme on 06/19/07 03:00
In article <op.tt2h06ibqnv3q9@metallium>,
Rik <luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:22:52 +0200, dorayme
> <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> > For many web sites hosted on Unix servers I use (happily) a
> > construction like this for includes:
> >
> > <?php include ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/includes/footer.inc');
> > ?>
> >
> > But this does not work on Windows servers and it has always been
> > a puzzle to me (yes, I have asked here and elsewhere before about
> > the matter. I seem not to have appreciated any advice given, or I
> > have forgotten it). Anyone know a reliable way to state the path
> > absolutely on a Windows server so I can use the same construction
> > on each page with assurance the server can find the folder which
> > contains all the includes?
>
>
> It works on Windows for me, with Apache though. On another webserver it
> might be diffent. print_r($_SERVER) to see what data it holds, if that
> doesn't work, I've had good luck with getenv('DOCUMENT_ROOT').
Finally got it to work after guidance from someone on alt.html
where I asked similar question. He suggested some code to winkle
out the path and it came up trumps and well, I am away on this
one at last. Thought I should mention it in case anyone else has
had similar problem:
<http://groups.google.com.au/group/alt.html/browse_frm/thread/dd92
89787fb6504e/20d4081545e64238?lnk=raot&hl=en#20d4081545e64238>
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dorayme
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