Once you tell apache to load /example/index.php, that's where you are. You might try looking at the $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']. Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com Ólafur Waage wrote: > I'll throw out an example here. > > I have a directory structure of: /var/www/example/ > And in that i have a file: index.php > That file echo's getcwd() and returns: /var/www/example/ > > Now i tell Apache or Lighty that if a directory does not have an > index.php file, that it should use /example/index.php (for example via > DirectoryIndex of Apache) > > Then i make a new directory: /var/www/test/ > And browse to it and it echo's /var/www/example/ since its running > that file via DirectoryIndex > > This is true for all directories i make. Both for Windows and Linux > based servers. > > To my question. > > I am trying to get the full path of the current directory i am in. Not > from where the file is executing. How is that possible so it displays > a full path to that directory (regardless to the server setup)? > > I have tried a variation of things and have gotten mixed results. > Using $_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"] gives me the index file and the full > path to that. > $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] gets me part of the way but on a hosted > server with multiple domains it only gives me a partial path (rough > example: /var/www/ when the directory is /var/www/domain.com/test/) > And __FILE__ gives me the index.php's path. > I have also tried realpath("."); > And server("pwd"); with no luck. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Ólafur Waage > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
