I said AFAIK. I was under the impression the DirectoryIndex did a redirect. I just tested it and it does not, so you are correct Jochem. He has everything he needs. He'll need the document root and $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] to do this. Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com Jochem Maas wrote: > Micah Gersten schreef: >> What is the point of figuring that out? If we knew that, we might be >> able to help you with a solution. As it stands what you want is not >> possible AFAIK. > > you know wrong. he has all the info needed. > > 1. the document root of the site (/var/www/example.com) > 2. the requested URL (http://www.example.com/foo/bar) > > extract the path from the URL and stick into to the document root, > problem sorted. No? > > do this: > > var_dump($_SERVER, $_REQUEST); > > read the output it contains, it should have everything you > need although you will have to do some munging. > > for more esoteric setups you will have to test the code > for completeness and possible expand it's capability to > be able to tackle those situations. > > take it a step at a time. > > me thinks I made it sound more complicated than it is for > most scenarios ... reading your last post it seems the > answer is (for now) quite straight forward. > >> >> Thank you, >> Micah Gersten >> onShore Networks >> Internal Developer >> http://www.onshore.com >> >> >> >> Ólafur Waage wrote: >>> I am within a certain directory of the server via the browser. >>> >>> Example: >>> >>> http://www.example.com/foo/bar >>> would be >>> /var/www/example.com/foo/bar >>> >>> And Apache's DirectoryIndex feature is opening a index.php file that >>> is located at >>> /var/www/example.com/test/index.php >>> >>> And from that file i need to figure out the full local path of >>> /foo/bar (which would be /var/www/example.com/foo/bar ) or any other >>> directory i browse too. >>> >>> Ólafur Waage >>> >>> >>> >> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php