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Posted by gosha bine on 06/26/07 21:33
laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:
> On Jun 26, 3:26 pm, ZeldorBlat <zeldorb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 26, 3:55 pm, "laredotorn...@zipmail.com"
>>
>> <laredotorn...@zipmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> We're using PHP 4.4.4 with Apache 2 on Linux. Aggravatingly, the
>>> hosting company has done something to where $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']
>>> no longer returns the path to the web root directory. I have now gone
>>> through all my code and replaced $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] with a
>>> constant, DOC_ROOT. Now, the challenge is to define the constant.
>>> Suggestions?
>>> One important thing. The file the constant will be defined in is not
>>> necessarily going to be a file at the web root level.
>>> Thanks for all your help, - Dave
>> Does you web root change? Are you planning on deploying the software
>> to another server? If the answer is no just hard code it in some
>> configuration file. You do have a configuration file of sorts for
>> database connection parameters and such, right?
>
> We do have a config file for the db connection stuff, but the problem
> is on our dev server, the site is located one level down from the web
> root and on the live site it is located at the same level. So it
> would be great to find an expression to cover both situations.
>
> Thanks, -
>
How about
if(DEV_SERVER)
define('DOC_ROOT', 'something');
else
define('DOC_ROOT', 'something else');
where DEV_SERVER could be, for example,
define('DEV_SERVER', $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'] == "127.0.0.1");
or something else specific to your environment.
--
gosha bine
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