Re: [PHP] Working directory of PHP pages?

2009-03-11 Thread Per Jessen
Clancy wrote: It is my understanding that when you open a page the PHP server looks for index.php in the site root directory, and loads it. A typical Apache configuration will have 'DirectoryIndex index' and will look for 'index' when there is no specific file given. It looks in whichever

[PHP] Working directory of PHP pages?

2009-03-10 Thread Clancy
It is my understanding that when you open a page the PHP server looks for index.php in the site root directory, and loads it. As a result the working directory of the page will be the root directory of the site. I have always worked on this assumption, and it has always been correct. On the

Re: [PHP] Working directory of PHP pages?

2009-03-10 Thread Chris
Clancy wrote: It is my understanding that when you open a page the PHP server looks for index.php in the site root directory, and loads it. The web server (not php) looks for an index.php file (if configured to do so) based on the path. http://www.example.com/subdir/folder/ will look in

Re: [PHP] Working directory of PHP pages?

2009-03-10 Thread Michael Kubler
You can configure different index file names for Apache to check for. e.g index.html, index.htm, index.php, default.htm I had one webserver where it would only accept default.htm as the file, and didn't allow .htaccess files. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions