$document_root Strange Behaviour

[paco]

I use the apache variable $DOCUMENT_ROOT for the header of all my php files. It should point to the root of my public directory:

 

/home/hispagi/public_html/

 

However, it points to:

/usr/local/apache/htdocs/

 

Are there any way of change this behaviour? , my pages don't work for this reason (in other hostings I had not this problem)

 

Thanks in advance.

[Head Guru]

Hi,

 

cPanel servers use custom binaries so therefore this behavior is standard and can not be modified.

 

All cPanel servers use the same doc root.

[paco]

Thank you

 

I liked to use $DOCUMENT_ROOT instead of the path, because of the compatibility between the remote host, and my localhost (to testing). Well, thanks.

[KevinW]

Head Guru -- can you please reconfirm your answer?

 

Paco expected that $DOCUMENT_ROOT would give /home/{username}/public_html/ but instead got /usr/local/apache/htdocs

 

But when I run either the the phpinfo() script or the env.pl script on a TCH server, they both report back that the contents of $DOCUMENT_ROOT as: /home/{username}/public_html

 

Am i missing something?

-kw

[paco]

I received this message from Alan Ho (summarize):

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I've created a test.php page and it shows document_root being set to the correct

home folder. You should check your PHP coding to make sure you are referencing the correct global variable.

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Indeed, at this moment, it works OK , but my old test script was this:

 

<? echo "document root: $DOCUMENT_ROOT"; ?> , and it said:

/usr/local/apache/htdocs

 

Now it say:

/home/hispagi/public_html

 

Perhaps somebody has changed anything. Well, it's all OK now

[paco]

In this moment I've detected what has happened!:

 

If you have this script (called borra.php):

<? echo "document root: $DOCUMENT_ROOT"; ?>

 

and you go to:

http://207.44.242.2/~hispagi/borra.php

It shows: /usr/local/apache/htdocs

 

But if you go to (the same, after dns propagation):

http://www.hispagimnasios.com/borra.php

it shows: /home/hispagi/public_html

[KevinW]

So, the resolution to the problem was to wait until the update for your web / DNS name server had propogated?

 

Good.

-kw

[rayners]

I imagine it's not so much a DNS issue as it is an Apache Virtual Host issue. If Apache knows that it's running under http://www.hispagimnasios.com/ (i.e. when the script is called with that as the base URL), it knows that the document root for that Virtual Host is /home/hispagi/public_html. If it is called with the IP number, it doesn't know that the page it is serving exists under http://www.hispagimnasios.com/, so the document root in that case is just the default server root (/usr/local/apache/htdocs).

 

If that makes any sense.