How can I find the physical path of my site

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I have to upload images to my images directory. I am working on localhost yet. I know that I need to tell the physical path of images directory to upload the images. In my localhost I know that images directory physical path is "c:\wamp\www\mysite\images". But In a Production Environment How can I know that what is the physical path of images directory?

Posted 18-May-11 19:48pm

rashidfarooq

Updated 18-May-11 19:49pm

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Try this link[^] (number of ways mentioned, some might be of use to you).

Posted 18-May-11 19:53pm

Abhinav S

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Peter_in_2780 · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-18T20:27:00

I'd strongly recommend that you use your document root as your filesystem "anchor". Make all your (data, not code) paths relative to that - in PHP, it would be $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] (or $DOCUMENT_ROOT if the hosting provider has not turned register_globals off for security reasons). If you do this, then the "real" path to the files doesn't matter - you can find them no matter where your document root is.
For example, I look after a remotely hosted (Linux) website where the document root is /var/www/association/mysite I run a test copy of the site on a Windows machine, where the document root is c:\documents and settings\peter\docroot\mytestsite Because I use paths like $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']/restricted/files both sites work the same, and I don't have to edit paths when I move stuff from one to the other.

Cheers,
Peter
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ps I'm assuming you are using Apache, on the basis of ..\wamp\.. in your path.

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