Moving site to another server, can I redefine server root?

PHP
1

I am working on this PHP site. I downloaded it from their FTP and worked on it on MAMP locally. All worked fine because I was able to set the root directory inside MAMP.

Now I need to put this site online on my server for client approval. My server is a shared hosting server where you upload the sites to a directory like “/home/public_html/username/_beta/company”.

All of the includes and PHP file references break because it goes back to the home directory.

Here are the first few lines in index.php that error first:

<?php
require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/lib/includes/init.php');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
	"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

I get this error:
Warning: require_once(/home/gailco/public_html/lib/includes/init.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/gailco/public_html/_beta/insidesign/index.php on line 2

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/gailco/public_html/lib/includes/init.php’ (include_path=‘.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/gailco/public_html/_beta/insidesign/index.php on line 2

Is there a way I can temporarily tell the site I moved to “/public_html/_beta/company/index.php” to treat this as the root directory so all includes such as “<?php
require_once($_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] . ‘/lib/includes/init.php’);
?>” will work?

Please help! I googled around and I can’t understand. I am a beginner with PHP so I need it explained where to put the code etc.

Thanks!

This is the init.php file. Is there something I can do in here?

<?php

// Report all PHP errors (bitwise 63 may be used in PHP 3)
//error_reporting(E_ALL);

//initialization file for xxxxxxxxxxx.COM
define('DOCROOT', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
define('REMOTEADDR', $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
define('URLTYPE', ($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] == 443 ? 'https://' : 'http://'));
define('SERVERNAME', $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']);

// Make PHP automatically load class files from the main classes directory
function __autoload($className) {
    require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/lib/classes/' . $className . '.class.php');
}

require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/lib/includes/globals.inc.php');

if (IS_LIVE) ini_set("include_path", ".:../:./lib/includes/PEAR:../lib/includes/PEAR:../../lib/includes/PEAR");

session_start();
if (empty($_SESSION['Session'])) {
    $_SESSION['Session'] = new Session();
}

$tmpArr = explode("/",$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);
define('SCRIPT_NAME',$tmpArr[sizeof($tmpArr)-1]);

foreach ($tmpArr as $x) { if (!empty($x)) break; }
define('SITE_SECTION', $x);
define('SITE_SUBSECTION',$tmpArr[2]);

define('SKIN_PATH', "/lib/skins/".CURRENT_SKIN);
define('DATEFORMAT','Y-m-d');

$site = new Site();

if (SITE_SECTION == 'admin' && SCRIPT_NAME != 'login.php') $site->requireAdminLogin();
?>

P.S. I also see lines in the code for includes like “<? $site->showHeader(); ?>”. Does this look familiar? Is this site built in some kind of CMS or framework I need to know of?

2

Thanks! I’m going to try that. Much easier!

3

That’s a brilliant idea. So simple. Thanks!

I have been creating a variable with a file path to the temporary root and then changing it over to the new path when the site is moved to it’s final resting place.

Your idea is so much better.

4

An easier thing to do is create a subdomain, which then has its own root folder. I have a lot of subdomains set up on my site so that I can place client files in a rood folder.