[SOLVED] Server and Document Root settings in Apache

[kevineugenius]

I'm not sure if I'm even asking the right question, but my website (not hosted by me) used codes like include $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/include/header.php";.  Per a forum member's suggestion, I ran an echo on that command, and it gives a folder tree three folders deep...  So, online, it points to the correct page, but I'm trying to set up Apache (I used WAMP) to get a beta test site on my own computer.  So, the above command doesn't work.  I ran searches for "document_root" and "php5/pear" (a directory in the error messages I get) to see if I could find a path setting in either Apache or PHP config files with no success.  Does anyone know how to set up either my Apache or PHP config so I can define what $_SERVER and DOCUMENT_ROOT are pointing to when they're on my localhost without making them not work when I upload them to my web host?

[freakstyle]

here's where you would change it:

 

open:

\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf

 

edit "DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"

 

to whatever you are needing it to point to.

 

 

 

[kevineugenius]

Bummer...  that one's already set up to the correct path.  Now I don't actually know what's wrong again.

[freakstyle]

perhaps the folders aren't in the same set up as in your hosted solution.

 

what you'll want to do is find an example case.

 

you say /include/header.php is one of the files it's looking for.

 

so on your local machine, you should have it like this

C:/xampp/htdocs/include/header.php

 

 

your file structure must match what is online, if you want it to work correctly.

 

if this doesn't help, can you paste in some examples of your current hosted file structure and your's (not the full tree please, just enough to see an example)

 

good luck

[Cagecrawler]

WAMP doesn't set doc_root out of the box.  You need to go into the php.ini file (Config files>php.ini on the WAMP menu) and search for doc_root (line 433).  Set it to the doc root, usually "C:\wamp\www".

[kevineugenius]

I tried both

doc_root = "c:/wamp/www"

and

doc_root = ".;c:/wamp/www"

with no results.

 

I tried uncommenting include_path, I check apache's file for documentroot settings, I can't find anything that isn't set.  You are right, doc_root wasn't set by default, but setting it didn't fix the problem either.

 

Would the problem have anything to do with the $_SERVER variable?

[ingeva]

I use

 

$home = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"];

 

and it has never given me any problems.

 

[darsh999]

I think you must go out with this coding $home = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"];

 

it will never give you problem in future..

[kevineugenius]

Where do I put that? 

[kevineugenius]

Alright, so the document_root stuff wasn't the problem at all.  The problem was in php.ini

short_open_tag = On

was set to off.