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Drew Butcher
Drew Butcher
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Posted by Drew Butcher
Drew Butcher
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Moving Shirts4Mike into a subdirectory of htdoc

Once I finished the Shirts4Mike site I wanted to move the project into a sub directory of my htdocs folder so I created a folder in htdocs called "Shirts4Mike", then I went to the config.php file found in the "inc" folder and change the code to the following: 

<?php
define("BASE_URL","/shirts4mike/");                         
define("ROOT_PATH", $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."/shirts4mike/");

Now, when I type "localhost" into the url i see the subfolder "shirts4mike/" and when I click on this subfolder the page pulls up BLANK :( . Here is the link to the video by Randy Hoyt

Best, Drew

2 Answers

Randy Hoyt
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Randy Hoyt
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Randy Hoyt
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest Teacher

If you are getting a white screen, then you have a PHP error somewhere. It could be a simple syntax error like a missing semi-colon, but I suspect that the problem lies in where you have required the config.php file. Double-check each page to see if some work and some don't. If this command ...

require_once('../config.php');

... can't find the file, then it will produce an error and generate a white screen.

EDUARDO PARRA SANJOSE
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EDUARDO PARRA SANJOSE
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EDUARDO PARRA SANJOSE
EDUARDO PARRA SANJOSE
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Hi,

I think you can try to define your ROOT_PATH constant as:

define("ROOT_PATH", dirname( $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] ) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . ".." . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);

If you do so, the BASE_PATH constant, should work as you defined above.

PHP, among others, have following constants defined by default:

$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] Contains the fullpath to the file. So in this case it will contain the full path to your config.php file. Instead of $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] you can also use $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]

DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR Contains the symbol that your OS uses to separate directories in a PATH. For example in windows is \ while in linux is /

So when the ROOT_PATH is the defined like this in the config file:

define("ROOT_PATH", dirname($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . ".." . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);

It search in first place the fullpath to your file, in my case as I am using linux is: /var/www/shirts4mike/inc/config.php

The dirname function then takes out the name of the file and leaves only the path /var/www/shirts4mike/inc

Then it adds a directory separator /var/www/shirts4mike/inc/

Then a couple of points to go up one level (so if we are in inc, the .. tells php to go the shirts4mike folder /var/www/shirts4mike/inc/..

Finally we add another directory separator /var/www/shirts4mike/inc/../

I do not know if this is the best solution, but it worked for me and I hope it will work as well for you :)

Many thanks, have a nice day,

Edu