Use of php5 and DOCUMENT_ROOT

[McCarthySites]

I'm moving scripts over and had been using

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] as a starting point for things like
require_once().

On Host9, using DOCUMENT_ROOT results in a failure to include because php5 won't go outside of its '/' world which is /www

document root is:

DOCUMENT_ROOT /usr/local/apache/htdocs

doing

require_once ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/scripts/config.php');

fails with 'no such file or directory'.

Using $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] and pulling the path from that..

Is this a configuration issue with php5? Should document_root be setup to give a path valid for requires/includes ?

Brian

[colt45]

Viewing the settings using phpinfo in one of my sites shows the setting for 'DOCUMENT_ROOT' being '/home/user/public_html' (where user is my account username) which looks OK to me.

Is the script you're trying to use in the public_html folder?

[McCarthySites]

Originally Posted by colt45

Viewing the settings using phpinfo in one of my sites shows the setting for 'DOCUMENT_ROOT' being '/home/user/public_html' (where user is my account username) which looks OK to me.

Is the script you're trying to use in the public_html folder?

Mine is setup as shown (from phpinfo()) so I'll put in a ticket which should save me lots of editing of scripts...

Brian

[McCarthySites]

After having the site go live (ie dns changes) DOCUMENT_ROOT is now pointing
at the correct path (one that can be used with require() ).

When using ip/~user - document_root is set to /usr/local/apache/htdocs

Which means - I didn't have to update all those scripts... argggg - well, I picked a small site for the first test!