PHP_SELF incorrect on WIMP shared host

[Kevin Haryett]

My host is running WIMP and has set up shared configuration.

Lets say the address is

http://kevin.host.com

Now, the actual directory is c:\inetpub\wwwr oot\kevin

If I check PHP_SELF from a test file, it reports it as /kevin/test.php
instead of /test.php leading me to believe that there is something
amuck with his setup.

4.3.4 is the version of PHP he is running. Needless to say, this plays
havock with any script that uses the PHP_SELF and I have worked around
it by hard coding paths that I shouldn't need to.

The host and I are both scratching our heads at this. This is their
first trip in the PHP world, and I have never seen this (worked fine on
apache) so I am at a loss.

Can someone point me to an answer?

-Kevin

[Tony Marston]

If you read the manual at http://uk2.php.net/reserved.variables you will see
that PHP_SELF returns a value which is relative to the document root. If you
document root is c:\inetpub\wwwr oot then running a file from
c:\inetpub\wwwr oot\kevin\test. php will report "kevin/test.php". THIS IS
CORRECT.

If you want to strip off the leading "kevin/" then check out
http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.basename.php.

Hope this helps.

--
Tony Marston

http://www.tonymarston.net

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My host is running WIMP and has set up shared configuration.

Lets say the address is

http://kevin.host.com

Now, the actual directory is c:\inetpub\wwwr oot\kevin

If I check PHP_SELF from a test file, it reports it as /kevin/test.php
instead of /test.php leading me to believe that there is something
amuck with his setup.

4.3.4 is the version of PHP he is running. Needless to say, this plays
havock with any script that uses the PHP_SELF and I have worked around
it by hard coding paths that I shouldn't need to.

The host and I are both scratching our heads at this. This is their
first trip in the PHP world, and I have never seen this (worked fine on
apache) so I am at a loss.

Can someone point me to an answer?

-Kevin

[Markus Ernst]

Kevin Haryett wrote:

My host is running WIMP and has set up shared configuration.

Lets say the address is

http://kevin.host.com

Now, the actual directory is c:\inetpub\wwwr oot\kevin

If I check PHP_SELF from a test file, it reports it as /kevin/test.php
instead of /test.php leading me to believe that there is something
amuck with his setup.

As an addition to Tony's explanation: Maybe you look after
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] rather than $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']. Have a look at
phpinfo() to see what values the various environmental variables return, and
decide which one suits you.

HTH
Markus

[Kevin Haryett]

If this is going to be a shared host for many users, what are my
options? There are going to be many wordpress setups, and altering code
is not an option.

Would setting thes up as sites in IIS (thus allowing a different
document root) be the only option?

[Markus Ernst]

Kevin Haryett wrote:

If this is going to be a shared host for many users, what are my
options? There are going to be many wordpress setups, and altering
code is not an option.

Would setting thes up as sites in IIS (thus allowing a different
document root) be the only option?

Now I think I understand what you mean - your own "root" directory is not
the actual root directory. So what I would do is define a variable for the
directory I want to refer to:

$my_root_rel = "/kevin";
$my_root_abs = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].$my_root_rel;

Then use those to build all your paths:
In HTML:
<img src="<?php echo $my_root_rel; ?>/images/my_image.gif">
In PHP:
getimagesize($m y_root_abs."/images/my_image.gif");

HTH
Markus

[Kevin Haryett]

That would not be an option for me to run Wordpress as it makes use of
the PHP_SELF. It will also not work for any of the other users or
scripts.