Set a Base Path for each site in localhost

[Omzy]

I've got a localhost Apache server on my Windows machine

 

I want to be able to create multiple sites under http://localhost, so for example:

 

http://localhost/site1

http://localhost/site2

http://localhost/site3

 

The problem with this is that relative URLs don't always work, for example if I have a have a common header file (header.php) which contains a reference to a stylesheet (<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" />) and I include() header.php on all pages, it won't work for pages that are in a subfolder of that site, for example: http://localhost/site1/subfolder1/index.php

 

index.php includes header.php but the stylesheet reference points to the current folder, however styles.css is in the "root" of that site. If I change "styles.css" to "/styles.css" it looks in the root of "localhost" rather than the root of the site.

 

So is there any way to specify in Apache/PHP what the base path of the site should be? I've tried "RewriteBase" in .htaccess but that doesn't quite work..

[mattal999]

Not sure, but try this:

 

<base href="http://localhost/site1/" />

[micmania1]

Lookup putenv() and getenv() functions.

[Omzy]

mattal - if I do that it won't work on the live server

micmania - i'm not sure how to use those functions in my scenario

[Omzy]

Anyone?

[premiso]

You will have to setup a "config" to say for each site1 etc.

 

Then before including header.php include that config.php which contains constants or variables, such as "SITE"

 

IE:

http://localhost/site1/config.php

define("SITE", "site1");

 

http://localhost/site1/index.php

<?php
require('config.php');
require('../header.php');
?>

 

http://localhost/header.php

<base href="http://localhost/<?php echo SITE; ?>/" />
<link href="style.css" type="text/css" />

 

Catch the drift? You will have to define it somehow, or else the script is just like anything else, it does not know how to decide what "you" want.