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Andi Giga
Andi Giga

Reputation: 4172

PHP Going Back Folders in the URL

I call my PHP file from a deeply nested folder because my code is structured in modules.

I tried this:

define('__ROOT__', dirname(__FILE__).'../../../');
echo __ROOT__;

This gives me:

/var/www/virtual/myvirtualservername/mywebsite.com/modules/Dialog/Feedback../../

I cannot just use:

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']

That gives me:

/var/www/virtual/myvirtualservername/html

which is also the wrong folder.

Unfortunately it doesn't work and I don't have an error log on my server so I can't debug the internal server error. Requested that now from my provider.

In summary, my question is how to reach the folder I want, /var/www/virtual/myvirtualservername/mywebsite.com/?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 139

Answers (2)

DisgruntledGoat
DisgruntledGoat

Reputation: 72560

I think your issue is you are not adding a slash at the start of your paths. Directory values are returned without trailing slashes, e.g. /var/www

Modifying your first line to this should work:

define('__ROOT__', __DIR__.'/../../../mywebsite.com');
echo __ROOT__;

I replaced dirname(__FILE__) with __DIR__ as mentioned in the comments. Also note that __ROOT__ does not have a trailing slash, so you would add that when putting your file in, e.g.

include __ROOT__ . '/file.php';

I'm not exactly sure what the deal is with your document root though. It looks like the public part of the site is in html but the PHP code is in a directory mywebsite.com alongside that.

Upvotes: 2

skidadon
skidadon

Reputation: 547

I don't know...perhaps you can do a 'string replace' if you want it to be exact, something like the following:

define('__ROOT__',str_replace("/modules/Dialog/Feedback","",dirname(__FILE__)));

Something like this should yield the result you want.

Upvotes: 0

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