Undefined variable: DOCUMENT_ROOT

[sam]

Hi there everybody

I'm having a little trouble with the HTTP variables. I have just installed Apache 1.3.24 and the latest version of PHP. I installed it as a sapi module and everything went fine. However when trying to make references to the reserved HTTP variables like:

HTTP_REFERER
DOCUMENT_ROOT

I get errors, this is what is outputted

Notice: Undefined variable: HTTP_REFERER in d:\home\httpd\html\pcm_staff\index.php on line 3

Notice: Undefined variable: DOCUMENT_ROOT in d:\home\httpd\html\pcm_staff\index.php on line 10

Its a little odd because when I check phpinfo(); the HTTP_REFERER and DOCUMENT_ROOT appear with the correct values.

Has anybody got any ideas. Thanks

[WiZARD]

Hi!
I'm to have this problem. :!:
But if you carefully see at the httpd.conf in Apache, you can see next:
#AddModule mod_headers.c :!:
All this variables not permit Apache.

[sam]

Thanks, I worked out what the problem is, try use:

$HTTP_SERVER_VARS['DOCUMENT_ROOT']

in the new versions of php > 4.1 the setting of "register_globals" is set to "off" by default. You can change it if you search your php.ini for the line where register_globals is defined and set it to "on".

Cheers

[Faithless]

or $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']

This also affects accessing posta nd cookies variables.

[WiZARD]

I do not know how you config yours Apache and PHP, but at my comp all work

OS Windows 98SE

Apache: 1.3.24
PHP: 4.2.1

Than I type next in test.php:

Code: Select all

<?PHP
echo ($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['DOCUMENT_ROOT'])
?>


I see in my local server http://student/test.php:
c:/apache/apache/htdocs

[khote]

This is from my httpd.conf. I have commented out the default location they chose and changed it to a more genearl /var/www/html
Make this change yourself (to wherever you want your web root), stop and start apache.
#
# DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your
# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but
# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
#
#DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache/htdocs"
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

getenv("DOCUMENT_ROOT") also works for me, without having to worry about register_globals ...