Question

Consider a website installed in the ‘mysite’ directory:

/var/www/html/mysite/index.php
document root = /var/www/html
url = www.mysite.com/mysite/index.php

What would you call the following:

1. /var/www/html/mysite/ index.php (Base path? Root path?)
2. /var/www/html /mysite /index.php -or- http://www.mysite.com /mysite /index.php (Path? Base path?)
3. http://www.mysite.com/mysite/index.php (Base URL)

I can’t seem to come up with a clear cut name to distinguish 1 and 2.

Answer 1

I’m from a ruby-on-rails background but…

1) either base-path or root path are used for this. Pick one and be consistent 🙂
3) in RoR we call this the “root url” but it’s also kinda the “home path” too.
as to 2 – it doesn’t occur in rails (or at least we don’t have a name for it)

it sounds like the following would be consistent without confusing them all:

1. base-filepath == /var/www/html/mysite/ /index.php
2. root-filepath == /var/www/html /mysite /index.php
3. root-url == http://www.mysite.com/mysite/index.php

An alternative would be:

1. root-filepath
2. home-filepath
3. home-url

my 2c 🙂