Getting a websites public_html or wwwroot equiv directory...

listenmirndt

Is there a way to get a websites public_html directory (or eqivilant)

I am writing a script that needs to know if the websites web accessible directory is located in public_html, wwwroot, or something else (since it's different across different web servers)

i don't want to get the entire path with $_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT], and I don't know how to break apart the string /home/user/etc/public_html/ since this is going to be different from server to server,

basically, i just want to know if there is a way to know where the wwwroot directory is, if it's public_html or whatever else it might be...

thanks

bradgrafelman

I'm confused... why don't you want $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']?

What good does "public_html" do you if you don't know where in the file system that "public_html" folder is?

Weedpacket

You managed to completely contradict yourself:

listenmirndt wrote:
if the websites web accessible directory is located in public_html, wwwroot, or something else ... i don't want to get the entire path

So you want to now what it's called, but you don't care where it is.

listenmirndt wrote:
i just want to know if there is a way to know where the wwwroot directory is, if it's public_html or whatever else it might be...

So you want to know where it is, but you don't care what it's called.

Ashley_Sheridan

explode('/', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);

bradgrafelman

Ashley Sheridan;10995850 wrote:
explode('/', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);

But what if $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] doesn't contain any '/' characters? 😉

Ashley_Sheridan

Then it's probably on a Windows server so the slashes would be \, or the directory is in the root, no? I can't imagine the latter happening, but the former I suppose would be possible, I just assumed because the OP was only using *nix paths.