Posted by shimmyshack on 06/27/07 01:01

On Jun 26, 10:33 pm, gosha bine <stereof...@gmail.com> wrote:
> laredotorn...@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
>
> extended php parser ~http://code.google.com/p/pihipi
> blok ~http://www.tagarga.com/blok

I would define the absolute path to the application root using:

define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');

But I have come across this problem when using Dynamically Configured
Mass Virtual Hosting, and although you havent said, it may be
returning the IP instead of the servername withint the path:

should be
/path/to/vhosts/servername.com/htdocs
but is
/path/to/vhosts/IP_OF_SERVER/htdocs
instead, in this case yuo can just do a string replace
$_SERVER["SERVER_ADDR"]
with
$_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"]
with the
$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]
variable

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