getting back to the root

[sinky]

Hi,

I am having trouble with paths such as

/includes/new.php

however this works

../includes/new.php

I am running PHP on IIS

Any Ideas?


Thanks

Sinky

[veridicus]

Starting a path off with a slash (/) means it's absolute, i.e. starting from root. Starting with ".." makes it relative, starting up one from the current directory. "includes/new.php" (without the slash in front) tells the script to start from the current directory and look in "includes".

[sinky]

Sorry I should have made my slef more clear.

includes is at the root so i theory this should work from anywhere in the site

/includes/new.php

However it does not.

If I am in say www.somesite.com/test/new.php

I can get to www.somesite.com/includes/new.php

By doing ../includes/new.php

But not

/includes/new.php

Is this a php.ini thing

Thanks

Sinky

[GhostGambler]

The directory "includes" is at the root of your ftp directory structure. This does not mean that it's actually the document root...

echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; 

If you run this in your ftp root directory you can take a look at where your ftp directory is actually located and then make a correct absolute path.
(A common way to fix this problem is to just use a constant before includes: so something like

include (BASE_DIR . '/includes/new.php'); 

you can define BASE_DIR with $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] or set it to another value if the value of the server var is incorrect because of lacking server config or whatever)

[pompopom]

I have more or less the same problem...

when I'm in:

http://admin.mydomain.be/index.php

and need to get to:

http://www.mydomain.be/includes/init.php

I use

../includes/init.php 

since the document root for the admin.mydomain.be is a subfolder named 'admin' in the document root for mydomain.be.
This works fine!

Now when I need to get to an image located in:

http://www.mydomain.be/pics/open/image.jpg

I use

../pics/open/image.jpg 

but the only thing I get is the famous "red cross"....

the picture IS actually there cause when I try to reach it straight with:

http://www.mydomain.be/pics/open/image.jpg

I do see the image...

any ideas?

thx!
Koen

[GhostGambler]

http://admin.mydomain.be/
../pics/open/image.jpg
Where should this end?

/www/admin/
../pics/open/image.jpg
Where does this end?

Difference between server and browser view on the directory structure seems to be unclear~

[kromey]

The problem you're having, pompopom, is that you are confusing web paths and filesystem paths. Anything you send out to the browser (such as image paths) use web paths; anything you do server-side (such as PHP includes) use filesystem paths.

If your image is at http://www.mydomain.be/pics/open/image.jpg, then an absolute path would be /pics/open/image.jpg (although if your page is on the admin.mydomain.be subdomain, then you must include the domain in the path as well).

If your current script is in /home/pompopom/admin/index.php, and your include at /home/pompopom/includes/inc.php, then a relative path would be ../includes/inc.php and an absolute path would be /home/pompopom/includes/inc.php. Note that the /home/pompopom part is never seen by the browser yet is necessary for server-side absolute paths.

[pompopom]

aha I see

So you can't make a relative path to images if they aren't in the same domain even if the actual path on the server is only 'a folder' away

thx, i didn't knew this

greetz,
Koen