Re: DOCUMENT_ROOT

Previously, Jordan Elver said: > > I'm not using virtual hosts on my local machine but I am on the production > machine. What should DOCUMENT_ROOT return? I though it returns the directory > of the current script. So if I had a site in > /usr/local/apache/htdocs/cha/script.php then I would expect DOCUMENT_ROOT to > return /usr/local/apache/htdocs/cha/, is that right? No, if you want to fetch that then do this: $my_directory = dirname($PHP_SELF); If you don't have register_globals on then you might have to do this instead: $my_directory= dirname($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['PHP_SELF']); Should end up with "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/cha" in $my_directory (in this particular case). $DOCUMENT_ROOT is whatever your httpd.conf file says DocumentRoot is. Even if you don't use virtualhosts, there should be a DocumentRoot in one of your Apache config files. I believe Apache will complain loudly on startup if that parameter is missing. -dan -- Plan to be spontaneous - tomorrow.