Why does is_dir($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) produce false in Windows XP?

[comp.lang.php]

Env:

Windows XP, Apache 1.33, PHP 5.2.0

[PHP]
<?
echo is_dir($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . " for dir = " .
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
?>
[/PHP]

Produces

for dir = C:/program files/apache group/apache/htdocs

Why is it in Windows that this occurs? What can I do to circumvent
this?

Thanx
Phil

[Erwin Moller]

comp.lang.php wrote:

Env:

Windows XP, Apache 1.33, PHP 5.2.0

[PHP]
<?
echo is_dir($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . " for dir = " .
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
?>
[/PHP]

Produces

for dir = C:/program files/apache group/apache/htdocs

Why is it in Windows that this occurs? What can I do to circumvent
this?

Thanx
Phil

Hi,

Put error on, and you'll see why.
Your line contains an error: the closing ) at the end.

FOr me on win2000/IIS5 it produces a 1 (true).

Also be aware that a false doesn't produce any output in this way.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[comp.lang.php]

Erwin Moller wrote:

comp.lang.php wrote:

Env:

Windows XP, Apache 1.33, PHP 5.2.0

[PHP]
<?
echo is_dir($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . " for dir = " .
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
?>
[/PHP]

Produces

for dir = C:/program files/apache group/apache/htdocs

Why is it in Windows that this occurs? What can I do to circumvent
this?

Thanx
Phil

Hi,

Put error on, and you'll see why.
Your line contains an error: the closing ) at the end.

FOr me on win2000/IIS5 it produces a 1 (true).

Sorry for me it still produces a false; took out the closing ) which I
put in by mistake, but I still get false. No errors, no warnings, no
notices, even with error_reporting(E_ALL); and display_errors(true);

Also be aware that a false doesn't produce any output in this way.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Erwin Moller]

comp.lang.php wrote:

>
Erwin Moller wrote:

>comp.lang.php wrote:

Env:

Windows XP, Apache 1.33, PHP 5.2.0

[PHP]
<?
echo is_dir($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . " for dir = " .
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
?>
[/PHP]

Produces

for dir = C:/program files/apache group/apache/htdocs

Why is it in Windows that this occurs? What can I do to circumvent
this?

Thanx
Phil

Hi,

Put error on, and you'll see why.
Your line contains an error: the closing ) at the end.

FOr me on win2000/IIS5 it produces a 1 (true).

Sorry for me it still produces a false; took out the closing ) which I
put in by mistake, but I still get false. No errors, no warnings, no
notices, even with error_reporting(E_ALL); and display_errors(true);

In that case PHP thinks the directory doesn't exist, or is not a directory,
but a file.
If you are 100% sure the directory is there, you can try this:

Make sure PHP can SEE the directory.
To do this, check if the user that runs PHP (apache probably) has readrights
on that directory.

Luckily, PHP does not have adminrights by default. :-)

If that doesn't help, maybe the path needs quotes around it because it does
contain a space (I am not sure about that).

You could check this by simply adding them like this:

<?php
echo is_dir("'".$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."'") . " for dir = " .
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
?>
Regards,
Erwin Moller

[comp.lang.php]

Erwin Moller wrote:

comp.lang.php wrote:

Erwin Moller wrote:

comp.lang.php wrote:

Env:

Windows XP, Apache 1.33, PHP 5.2.0

[PHP]
<?
echo is_dir($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . " for dir = " .
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
?>
[/PHP]

Produces

for dir = C:/program files/apache group/apache/htdocs

Why is it in Windows that this occurs? What can I do to circumvent
this?

Thanx
Phil

Hi,

Put error on, and you'll see why.
Your line contains an error: the closing ) at the end.

FOr me on win2000/IIS5 it produces a 1 (true).

Sorry for me it still produces a false; took out the closing ) which I
put in by mistake, but I still get false. No errors, no warnings, no
notices, even with error_reporting(E_ALL); and display_errors(true);

In that case PHP thinks the directory doesn't exist, or is not a directory,
but a file.
If you are 100% sure the directory is there, you can try this:

Make sure PHP can SEE the directory.
To do this, check if the user that runs PHP (apache probably) has readrights
on that directory.

readrights? This is XP, remember? How do you do permissions/rights in
XP?

>
Luckily, PHP does not have adminrights by default. :-)

If that doesn't help, maybe the path needs quotes around it because it does
contain a space (I am not sure about that).

You could check this by simply adding them like this:

<?php
echo is_dir("'".$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."'") . " for dir = " .
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
?>

Yeah I thought of that, tried that, to no avail, is_dir() continued to
be false even though the document root exists and is set into
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']

Phil

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Erwin Moller]

comp.lang.php wrote:

>
Erwin Moller wrote:

>comp.lang.php wrote:

>
Erwin Moller wrote:
comp.lang.php wrote:

Env:

Windows XP, Apache 1.33, PHP 5.2.0

[PHP]
<?
echo is_dir($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . " for dir = " .
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
?>
[/PHP]

Produces

for dir = C:/program files/apache group/apache/htdocs

Why is it in Windows that this occurs? What can I do to circumvent
this?

Thanx
Phil

Hi,

Put error on, and you'll see why.
Your line contains an error: the closing ) at the end.

FOr me on win2000/IIS5 it produces a 1 (true).
Sorry for me it still produces a false; took out the closing ) which I
put in by mistake, but I still get false. No errors, no warnings, no
notices, even with error_reporting(E_ALL); and display_errors(true);

In that case PHP thinks the directory doesn't exist, or is not a
directory, but a file.
If you are 100% sure the directory is there, you can try this:

Make sure PHP can SEE the directory.
To do this, check if the user that runs PHP (apache probably) has
readrights on that directory.

readrights? This is XP, remember? How do you do permissions/rights in
XP?

Strange as it may sound, even XP has rights. ;-)

I do not run XP myself, but on W2000 it works like this:
Just log in as admin or as a user with adminrights, go to the directory in
explorer, rightclick the directory, check the tab 'security'.

From their you will have to find out yourself what to do since I do not use
XP.
It boild down to giving readrights to the user that runs PHP (apache in your
case I think).

Regards and good luck,
Erwin Moller

>

>>
Luckily, PHP does not have adminrights by default. :-)

If that doesn't help, maybe the path needs quotes around it because it
does contain a space (I am not sure about that).

You could check this by simply adding them like this:

<?php
echo is_dir("'".$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."'") . " for dir = " .
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
?>

Yeah I thought of that, tried that, to no avail, is_dir() continued to
be false even though the document root exists and is set into
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']

Phil

>Regards,
Erwin Moller

[comp.lang.php]

Erwin Moller wrote:

comp.lang.php wrote:

Erwin Moller wrote:

comp.lang.php wrote:


Erwin Moller wrote:
comp.lang.php wrote:

Env:

Windows XP, Apache 1.33, PHP 5.2.0

[PHP]
<?
echo is_dir($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . " for dir = " .
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
?>
[/PHP]

Produces

for dir = C:/program files/apache group/apache/htdocs

Why is it in Windows that this occurs? What can I do to circumvent
this?

Thanx
Phil

Hi,

Put error on, and you'll see why.
Your line contains an error: the closing ) at the end.

FOr me on win2000/IIS5 it produces a 1 (true).


Sorry for me it still produces a false; took out the closing ) which I
put in by mistake, but I still get false. No errors, no warnings, no
notices, even with error_reporting(E_ALL); and display_errors(true);
In that case PHP thinks the directory doesn't exist, or is not a
directory, but a file.
If you are 100% sure the directory is there, you can try this:

Make sure PHP can SEE the directory.
To do this, check if the user that runs PHP (apache probably) has
readrights on that directory.

readrights? This is XP, remember? How do you do permissions/rights in
XP?

Strange as it may sound, even XP has rights. ;-)

I do not run XP myself, but on W2000 it works like this:
Just log in as admin or as a user with adminrights, go to the directory in
explorer, rightclick the directory, check the tab 'security'.

Sorry, but there is no 'security' tab. My user has full admin rights
and I'm using both "My Computer" and Windows Explorer, but there is no
security tab. I don't see how you can do permissions in XP or any
version of Windows.

Phil

>
From their you will have to find out yourself what to do since I do not use
XP.
It boild down to giving readrights to the user that runs PHP (apache in your
case I think).

Regards and good luck,
Erwin Moller

>
Luckily, PHP does not have adminrights by default. :-)

If that doesn't help, maybe the path needs quotes around it because it
does contain a space (I am not sure about that).

You could check this by simply adding them like this:

<?php
echo is_dir("'".$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."'") . " for dir = " .
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
?>

Yeah I thought of that, tried that, to no avail, is_dir() continued to
be false even though the document root exists and is set into
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']

Phil

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Erwin Moller]

comp.lang.php wrote:

<snip>

>>
In that case PHP thinks the directory doesn't exist, or is not a
directory, but a file.
If you are 100% sure the directory is there, you can try this:

Make sure PHP can SEE the directory.
To do this, check if the user that runs PHP (apache probably) has
readrights on that directory.

readrights? This is XP, remember? How do you do permissions/rights in
XP?

Strange as it may sound, even XP has rights. ;-)

I do not run XP myself, but on W2000 it works like this:
Just log in as admin or as a user with adminrights, go to the directory
in explorer, rightclick the directory, check the tab 'security'.

Sorry, but there is no 'security' tab. My user has full admin rights
and I'm using both "My Computer" and Windows Explorer, but there is no
security tab. I don't see how you can do permissions in XP or any
version of Windows.

Phil

I am sorry Phil, but you better ask in an XP-related newsgroup, or do some
googling by yourself.
I don't know where Microsoft hided that functionality this time, they like
to change important settings with every release of their OS's for reasons
unknown to me.

Good luck,
Erwin Moller

[Hendri Kurniawan]

Erwin Moller wrote:

comp.lang.php wrote:

<snip>

>>>>In that case PHP thinks the directory doesn't exist, or is not a
directory, but a file.
If you are 100% sure the directory is there, you can try this:
>
Make sure PHP can SEE the directory.
To do this, check if the user that runs PHP (apache probably) has
readrights on that directory.
readrights? This is XP, remember? How do you do permissions/rights in
XP?
Strange as it may sound, even XP has rights. ;-)

I do not run XP myself, but on W2000 it works like this:
Just log in as admin or as a user with adminrights, go to the directory
in explorer, rightclick the directory, check the tab 'security'.

Sorry, but there is no 'security' tab. My user has full admin rights
and I'm using both "My Computer" and Windows Explorer, but there is no
security tab. I don't see how you can do permissions in XP or any
version of Windows.

Phil

I am sorry Phil, but you better ask in an XP-related newsgroup, or do some
googling by yourself.
I don't know where Microsoft hided that functionality this time, they like
to change important settings with every release of their OS's for reasons
unknown to me.

Good luck,
Erwin Moller

That's because he is using "Simple File Sharing" feature.
But if you can't actually find it, i doubt that it's the prob.

Hendri Kurniawan

[comp.lang.php]

Erwin Moller wrote:

comp.lang.php wrote:

<snip>

>
In that case PHP thinks the directory doesn't exist, or is not a
directory, but a file.
If you are 100% sure the directory is there, you can try this:

Make sure PHP can SEE the directory.
To do this, check if the user that runs PHP (apache probably) has
readrights on that directory.

readrights? This is XP, remember? How do you do permissions/rights in
XP?

Strange as it may sound, even XP has rights. ;-)

I do not run XP myself, but on W2000 it works like this:
Just log in as admin or as a user with adminrights, go to the directory
in explorer, rightclick the directory, check the tab 'security'.

Sorry, but there is no 'security' tab. My user has full admin rights
and I'm using both "My Computer" and Windows Explorer, but there is no
security tab. I don't see how you can do permissions in XP or any
version of Windows.

Phil

I am sorry Phil, but you better ask in an XP-related newsgroup, or do some
googling by yourself.
I don't know where Microsoft hided that functionality this time, they like
to change important settings with every release of their OS's for reasons
unknown to me.

Thanx, though that ensures that I won't be easily able to control
security settings for web apps on a Windows server (Un*x 1, Windows
0)..

I wound up farging the whole thing with the directory paths and
hardcoded the user-defined directory values to be "/"-based and it
seems to work within PHP now as "c:/program files/apache
group/apache/htdocs" when I make sure it's declared that way.

*sigh*

Phil

>
Good luck,
Erwin Moller

[Toby Inkster]

comp.lang.php wrote:

Sorry, but there is no 'security' tab. My user has full admin rights
and I'm using both "My Computer" and Windows Explorer, but there is no
security tab. I don't see how you can do permissions in XP or any
version of Windows.

Perhaps you are using a FAT32 filesystem. Windows only has security
settings for NTFS filesystems.

--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact

[comp.lang.php]

Toby Inkster wrote:

comp.lang.php wrote:

Sorry, but there is no 'security' tab. My user has full admin rights
and I'm using both "My Computer" and Windows Explorer, but there is no
security tab. I don't see how you can do permissions in XP or any
version of Windows.

Perhaps you are using a FAT32 filesystem. Windows only has security
settings for NTFS filesystems.

It's a borrowed laptop so I would have no way of converting to NTFS
were that to be so, but that sounds right

>
--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact

[Dylan Parry]

Toby Inkster wrote:

Perhaps you are using a FAT32 filesystem. Windows only has security
settings for NTFS filesystems.

IIRC, it also doesn't show that tab by default in the Home Edition of
Windows XP, but there are methods of getting it to show (Google for them
if necessary).

--
Dylan Parry
http://electricfreedom.org | http://webpageworkshop.co.uk

Programming, n: A pastime similar to banging one's head
against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward.