DOCUMENT_ROOT trailing slash

[Aaron Cooper]

Hi all,

 

We have a new dedicated server and $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] is returning the correct document root with no trailing slash.

 

On all our old servers, it would return it with a trailing slash. So we have alot of sites that require a bit of adjustment for this new box

 

Is this configurable and would it be managed by php.ini or Apache?

 

Arguments for and against the trailing slash (or another more portable way of obtaining the docroot) is welcome.

 

Cheers

Aaron

[Paul Bennett]

from memory, you can set / alter the document root in httpd.conf

edit 

restart apache

problem solved...

[Carlos]

Aaron Cooper a écrit :

If you want this behaviour at the server level, you can use mod_dir with
the DirectorySlash directive. The details are in the Apache server
documentation.

Regards,
Carlos

[Simon Holywell]

You could also use a method like this: http://peterhansen.org/linux/loss-of-document_root-with-apache-mass-virtual-hosting

2009/3/17 Aaron Cooper <sup...@zanzomedia.com>

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[Jared Armstrong]

dirname(__FILE__) i use inmost cases, or similar depending on file
location, and works for most situatons. Obviously, this is a quite
different concept than document root.

[Keith Allpress]

Technology idiosyncracies not worth trying to patch over when you can
take control ?
Write it using a PHP include file for any page that needs it ?
Then it will return correctly!
Without the slash why not. :)
Keith

[Nathan Kennedy]

If you must use $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] and if you have no control over the configuration of Apache or PHP, you could use the following hack to ensure that it always has the trailing slash:

 

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .= (substr($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'],-1)=='/')?'':'/';

 

Thanks,

Nathan.

http://control.kennedytechnology.com

[Aaron Cooper]

Thanks Nathan,

 

I eventually found this hack. But I was just hoping to change this on the server level so we don't have to mess with the code base of 60+ existing sites at all.

 

Keith, we are talking about migrating existing sites here, not coding new ones.

 

Someone over on the cPanel forums has responded and I'm looking at an option mentioned there. It seems that it should be something set on the server globally.

 

Thanks for responses everyone.

 

Cheers

Aaron

[php&delphi]

Yes, you get good idea to solve it, in Apache, you can set
DocumentRoot without /

nice point!!!

Jin

[lazydada]

THANK YOU! (And your fancy-pants PHP).
Peek-a-boo DOCUMENT_ROOT trailing slashes? No problem.

> $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .=
> (substr($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'],-1)=='/')?'':'/';

A hack made in heaven.

[Aaron Cooper]

> Peek-a-boo DOCUMENT_ROOT trailing slashes? No problem.

If hacks are your thing and you don't mind hacking every single site you put
on the server. (I explained I had 60+ sites to migrate)

This fixes the symptom, not the problem.

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Subject: [phpug] Re: DOCUMENT_ROOT trailing slash


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