Absolute path of a web site on the web space?

There are several ways to determine the absolute path on your webspace.

Simply create an arbitrary text filesuch as "path.php" with one of the following contents and invoke it on your webspace. With

<?php
echo getcwd();
?>

you can directly output the absolute path. More information provides the phpinfo function

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

with whitch you can find the absolute path under DOCUMENT_ROOT in the section Enviroment. With

<?php
echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
?>

you can also directly access to this variable.

All of these functions are returning the absolute path to the place from which the script was called or the place where you have stored the file with the script on your webspace.
Last update on 2020-08-21 | Created on 2013-08-26