Hi Everyone,

I am trying to move my website from one hosting package to another with hostpapa. My site currently uses $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] for all the paths in PHP.

On my current hosting package this configuration works fine, however it does not work on the hostpapa hosting account. The document_root variable points to '/usr/local/apache/htdocs' and the document root of my website is '/home/<username>/public_html/'.

Is there a way to change the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] variable for my website only, to point to the correct directory?

Yes, at the top of your PHP files, just set the variable:

PHP Code:

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] = '/home/<username>/pubic_html/'; 


Try to call a php_info() on a page, and look if there is something coherent.
I remember having this problem, but it was years ago, and I don't remember how I avoided it.

Thank you for the quick reply and your help.

I was hoping for a solution where i don't have to add this to every file as there are probably about a hundred (if not more) files to this website. Is there a way of changing it across the site from one place? Am i able to do it in an htaccess file for only my website?

Originally Posted by tripy

Try to call a php_info() on a page, and look if there is something coherent.
I remember having this problem, but it was years ago, and I don't remember how I avoided it.

Not sure what im looking for exactly, the php info shows the "document_root" variable under the "environment" section set to "/usr/local/apache/htdocs" I am gussing this is what you mean.

If the scripts all access this variable directly, I'm not sure there's much you can do in a quick-fix format. If you're lucky, there's a file included in all other files near the top (say a database connection script?) where you can make this change.

I usually use this code to determine where the driver script is located (for future reference -- not sure if it will help here):

PHP Code:

$file_base = dirname(__file__).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;