[RESOLVED] Do I need to set up VirtualHost for this?

NathanaelCulver

I'm having the following problem with a site I'm working on:

On my local LAMP development machine, if I issue the command echo $_SERVER['SiteRoot'] I get:

/home/nathanael/www/accardi/

On the online site, the same command gives me:

/hermes/web07d/b1074/moo.nathanaelculver/accardi

The problem is the trailing slash -- my local development site has it, the online site does not. This breaks my code.

I'm guessing it's because on my local machine the site sits in a subdir off document root, whereas on the online site it's in docroot directly. I'm further guessing the best way to address the problem is to configure a virtual host in apache on my development machine, but I'm apparently not doing it right. Some tutorials I've read tell me to edit httpd.conf, others httpd-vhosts.conf.

Here's what I've got:

To my /etc/apache2/httpd.conf (which was empty) I added:

<Directory "/home/nathanael/www">
  Order Deny,Allow
  Allow from all
</Directory>

Include /etc/apache2/httpd-vhosts.conf

Then I created /etc/apache2/httpd-vhosts.conf and added these lines:

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
   DocumentRoot "/home/nathanael/www/accardi"
   ServerName accardi.local
</VirtualHost>

Then I restarted apache. But when I try to go to accardi.local, it can't find the site. What am I doing wrong?

--Nathanael

bradgrafelman

Why does it break your script? Can you show us how you're using it where it breaks?

NathanaelCulver

bradgrafelman;10953316 wrote:
Why does it break your script? Can you show us how you're using it where it breaks?

DOH -- forgot to do that.

I have, for example, the following code:

$_SESSION['SiteRootHTML'] = dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])."/";
$_SESSION['ThemesLocHTML'] = $_SESSION['SiteRootHTML' ]."site/Themes/";
echo $_SESSION['SiteRootHTML']."<br/>;
echo $_SESSION['ThemeLoc'];

With the trailing slash tacked onto the first variable, on my local machine the echo statements produce:

/accardi/
/accardi/site/Themes/Board-n-Parchment/

which is fine. On the live site, the same code produces:

//
//site/Themes/Board-n-Parchment/

which is broken. On the live site I have to omit the trailing slash. Omitting the slash on my local site, the second echo then produces:

/accardisite/Themes/Board-n-Parchment/

which breaks the local site.

I know my webhost runs Apache 1.3/PHP 5.2, while I'm running 2.2/5.3. Is that significant? On both sites, the website sits in subdir /accardi off document root, however, given the different values of $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] between sites, I'm assuming a virtual host must be configured on the live site (I haven't look at httpd.conf there, because I haven't found it yet).

It's not really a big deal having to add the / before uploading, but it'd be nice to fix it.

--Nathanael

bradgrafelman

As a quick workaround, you could always use [man]rtrim/man on the paths retrieved from $_SERVER to remove an ending '/' if present.

NathanaelCulver

bradgrafelman;10953391 wrote:
As a quick workaround, you could always use [man]rtrim/man ...

I think that'll do it. Now you mention it, I think I remember happening across that once in the php.net docs, but it wasn't relevant to what I was looking for at the time so it slipped my mind.

Marking resolved. Thanks!

--Nathanael