Through URL you can't determine the real path UNLESS your script returns some URL information. So that it can prevent hacker knowing some useful information about server to guarantee the web server's security. In PHP scripts, you can use __FILE__ to get real path or dirname(__FILE__) to get real directory. Hope it's helpful for you. Regards, Yong from Xerox, China 2005/5/8 -----Original Message----- From: Liam [mailto:drake.mobius@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 22:51 PM To: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Real path through aliases Hi, I'm running PHP 4.3 and Apache 2, trying to figure something out. Is there a way from PHP to determine the real (harddrive, not URL) path being accessed by a URL? For example, if I want to know where on my harddrive http://localhost/web/ is, it's going to be DOCUMENT_ROOT/web, and I can make that work using REQUEST_URI for anything under my document root However, some of my folders are apache folder aliased to other parts of my harddrive. Example, http://localhost/music is actually f:/my documents/music/ Is there any way to let PHP figure this out automatically, without having to hardcode my script to look there every time? I really appreciate any answers you might have Thanks, Liam -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
