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[RobBroekhuis]

A VERY basic question: how do I refer to the home directory of my server space in my PHP scripts? At the unix prompt, I can type, say, cd ~/includes to get to that place in my local structure. But fopen("~/includes/...") doesn't seem to work. I'm sure there's an easy way...


Rob

 

[sleipnir214]

The problem is that the "~" shortcut refers to the current user's home directory. That would be the home directory, if any, of the user as which your server runs, not the document root of the current virtual web server.

Try:
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']

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[RobBroekhuis]

Easy indeed - and thanks for explaining why it didn't work.


Rob