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Asked: 2026-06-13T21:51:02+00:00

Whenever I want to include a document with PHP, or perform any other PHP

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Whenever I want to include a document with PHP, or perform any other PHP action which requires a path to be described, I need to write something like, ../../../../../document.html. This works, but it’s tedious, and in some cases, the path is wrong, resulting in code appearing on-page, and debugging.
This can, obviously, be bypassed by using the $SERVER_['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] command, but that, too, requires a sometimes unmanageable amount of code (again, when many, many paths are present).
Is there any way to simply define all PHP paths site-wide to be document root-relative, as in HTML (/document.html is root relative)?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I used to do that and have those problems. Then I switched my site to use mod_rewrite for the urls. I then had all of my php pages in the same directory so I didn’t have to go a confusing 4 times up the directory structure to find the root. You can have a php file on your server at:

    /var/www/index.php

    And, using mod_rewrite in your .htaccess file, you can have that map to:

    http://domain.com/really/long/path/structure/page.html

    When I moved over to that structure, it really helped me on the php side of things specifically regarding navigating to different directories.

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