DOCUMENT_ROOT does not exist on my friend IIS installation.

I used __FILE__ to get the path of a "config.php" file sitting in the
document root, pulled off the file name, and got...

\\[mount_vol_name]\dir\path\to\web\

OK, I used that to define $web_root and then used that car to try and
REQUIRE other file.

I kept getting FILE CAN NOT BE FOUND errors.

I build the path by hand...

$web_root = '\\[mount_vol_name]\dir\path\to\web\';

same result.

then I did this...

$web_root = DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .
'[mount_vol_name' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .
'dir' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .
'path' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .
'to' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .
'web';

And this worked!!

Not really what I want to do!

I really would like an automated way to do this.

Anyone have any ideas?

Walter

PS: besides to use linux and/or apache?

otrWalter@gmail.com wrote:
> DOCUMENT_ROOT does not exist on my friend IIS installation.
>
> I used __FILE__ to get the path of a "config.php" file sitting in the
> document root, pulled off the file name, and got...
>
> \\[mount_vol_name]\dir\path\to\web\
>
> OK, I used that to define $web_root and then used that car to try and
> REQUIRE other file.
>
> I kept getting FILE CAN NOT BE FOUND errors.
>
> I build the path by hand...
>
> $web_root = '\\[mount_vol_name]\dir\path\to\web\';
>
> same result.
>
> then I did this...
>
> $web_root = DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .
> '[mount_vol_name' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .
> 'dir' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .
> 'path' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .
> 'to' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .
> 'web';
>
> And this worked!!
>
> Not really what I want to do!
>
> I really would like an automated way to do this.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Walter
>
> PS: besides to use linux and/or apache?
>

Load PHP as an ISAPI module, not a CGI. DOCUMENT_ROOT exists then.

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