OK. My bad. That's why I see DOCUMENT_ROOT on sourceforge is /var/www/, while my scripts are in /home/groups/p/pr/project/htdocs/.
Sorry for causing confusion in the ranks. :) So what the OP wants is dirname() ?? ---John Holmes... > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Shiflett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 6:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: 'Tony Crockford'; 'Php-General@Lists. Php. Net' > Subject: Re: [PHP] document_root > > *cringe* > > No, document root is a defined directory, not an attribute of a specific > file. It is used to map the root URL to a directory on the filesystem. > > For example, when you request http://www.google.com/, that final slash > in the URL is the resource you are requesting. In this case, it is the > root URL for that domain, and everything branches off from that > hierarchically. > > Document root is the filesystem directory that is equivalent to the root > URL and is used by the Web server to locate the requested resource. > Thus, everything within this directory is (potentially, depending on > permissions) accessible via a URL. For example, if the document root for > Google were /usr/local/apache/htdocs/, then the URL > http://www.google.com/foo/bar/blah.php would be equivalent to > /usr/local/apache/htdocs/foo/bar/blah.php on the filesystem. > > Hope that clarifies. > > Chris > > John W. Holmes wrote: > > >You want DOCUMENT_ROOT. If you have a file > > > >/home/groups/myproject/htdocs/file.php > > > >then, from within that file.php, DOCUMENT_ROOT is > > > >/home/groups/myproject/htdocs/ > > > >I think it would be $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] in newer versions of PHP. > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
