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mastermind93
mastermind93

Reputation: 11

Root Directory of Website (using Xampp)

I have created a website using Xampp as local server. My problem is at the moment, that I would like to include files and set links everytime begining from the root directory.

I tried a lot of methods but still not anyone is working. :(

Have tried following in the config.php already:

 $docRoot = dirname(__FILE__).'/mywebsite/';
 and also  $docRoot = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].'/mywebsite/';

For includes it is working like this:

But it isn't working for links in HTML.

If i try something using $docRoot like:

<a href="<?=$docRoot?>index.php"></a>

the result:

C:/xampp/htdocs/mywebsite/index.php

so it doesn't redirect to the link which is set...

but it should be just: localhost/mywebsite/index.php

Sorry for my english, I'm learning it. :D

Thanks and best regards

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3347

Answers (2)

Ronier Lopez
Ronier Lopez

Reputation: 31

What you are trying to do is to include a local file from your folders, you don't have to use a URL to do that, you have to use the local file path to that file, why don't you try something like this

<?php
// inside a config file 
define('DS' , '/' );
define('LOCAL_DIR' , 'mysite' );
define('ROOT_PATH' , $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . DS . LOCAL_DIR . DS );
define('BASEURL' , $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] . DS . LOCAL_DIR . DS);
?>

So whenever you want to include a file inside of any other script, you use:

<?php
include( ROOT_PATH . 'your_includes_directory/filename.php' );
?>

And whenever you want to print a link you use something like this:

<a href="<?=BASEURL;?>filename.php?var1=asd>Link to file</a>

Upvotes: 1

Elijan
Elijan

Reputation: 1416

<?php $docRoot= "http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].  $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];  ?>

check this about $_SERVER variables

Upvotes: 1

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