Code changed from windows to linux...

danielson2k

Ok, so ive just finished coding a site using Windows Apache.... ive uploaded it to my (unix/linux/whatever :p) server and it doesnt work right...

Could someone please give me a few pointers in the differences between windows and linux and what generally needs to be done to get code to work on both servers?

Thanks in advance 🙂

keith73

without any code to look at, there isn't a lot we can tell you.

First thing to check though is file paths. Are you accessing any files on the server, if so, on Windows the path would be different than on the linux machine.

IS the php.ini file configured differently on your windows machine than on your linux machine. Apache as well. Check your configs.

keith

danielson2k

well for example, the following isnt working:

if(is_file('pages/'.$_GET['page'].'.php')){

include('pages/'.$_GET['page'].'.php');

} else {

include('pages/home.php');

}

[/COLOR]

i dont quite understand linux file management...

epp_b

Try using backslashes for the Windows machine (and don't forget to escape them first).

keith73

Originally posted by danielson2k
well for example, the following isnt working:

if(is_file('pages/'.$_GET['page'].'.php')){
include('pages/'.$_GET['page'].'.php');
} else {
include('pages/home.php');
}

[/COLOR]

i dont quite understand linux file management... [/B]

It's really not that much different from Windows. The issue here is your file path needs to be absolute. So if your file is in /pages/ under your web's document root directory, you need to preceed that with the full path.

example:
my document root is htdocs.
htdocs is located under /server/user/
I have a directory called pages under htdocs. the absolute path to any file in that directory is:
/server/user/htdocs/pages/file.html

you have to remeber that the web server is calling php which is probably loacated in /bin/php or something like that. php needs the absolute path to the file.

Try doing this:
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/pages/file.html"

If the script that is looking for the file is in the same directory as pages/ then you could use ./pages/file.html but I don't think it will work.

Hope this helps,
- Keith