PHP doesn't access root directory using forward slash "/"

[ECRIA]

Hi All,

We are trying to figure out why PHP's file handling functions refuses to
access the web root using the "/" character on our Windows machines. For
example, a file /test.php is located in our web root. A file in a
subdirectory, say /example/runme.php needs to find out if the file
"/test.php" exists. One would expect that the function
file_exists("/test.php") would return true (it does on our unix host).
However, it returns false on our Windows machine.

Unfortunately we can't build a workaround as it is not us but oscommerce
that uses the "/" method to refer to the web root, and modifying all the
oscommerce scripts is simply impractical.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated,

Regards,

ECRIA Dev. Team

Details:
Apache 2.0.52
PHP 5.0.3
Windows XP Pro SP2

[Jay]

Re: PHP doesn't access root directory using forward slash "/"

Hi

On Windows this is not a valid Path "/test.php". If you want to test
for a file aon the
local directory use "./test.php" otherwise if you want to test for a
file on your web root you should set a specific DOCUMENT ROOT depending
on your webroot in apache. Then you could use

if(file_exists( $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/test.php"){
echo "Yipee;
}


Good luck


ECRIA schrieb:

Hi All,
>
We are trying to figure out why PHP's file handling functions refuses to
access the web root using the "/" character on our Windows machines. For
example, a file /test.php is located in our web root. A file in a
subdirectory, say /example/runme.php needs to find out if the file
"/test.php" exists. One would expect that the function
file_exists("/test.php") would return true (it does on our unix host).
However, it returns false on our Windows machine.
>
Unfortunately we can't build a workaround as it is not us but oscommerce
that uses the "/" method to refer to the web root, and modifying all the
oscommerce scripts is simply impractical.
>
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated,
>
Regards,
>
ECRIA Dev. Team
>
Details:
Apache 2.0.52
PHP 5.0.3
Windows XP Pro SP2

[Andy Hassall]

Re: PHP doesn't access root directory using forward slash "/"

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 07:57:43 -0400, "ECRIA" <php_file_probl em@ecria.comwro te:

>We are trying to figure out why PHP's file handling functions refuses to
>access the web root using the "/" character on our Windows machines. For
>example, a file /test.php is located in our web root. A file in a
>subdirectory , say /example/runme.php needs to find out if the file
>"/test.php" exists. One would expect that the function
>file_exists( "/test.php") would return true (it does on our unix host).
>However, it returns false on our Windows machine.
>
>Unfortunatel y we can't build a workaround as it is not us but oscommerce
>that uses the "/" method to refer to the web root, and modifying all the
>oscommerce scripts is simply impractical.

file_exists works in the filesystem space, not the URL space of the webserver.
"/" never refers to the web root (unless your webserver was chroot'ed to the
web root, which would be unusual); it's the filesystem root.

On Windows this is further complicated because there are multiple roots, one
per drive; "/" is a relative path on Windows, not an absolute path - relative
to the drive of the current working directory.

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