How to Determine Absolute Path

This tutorial shows you how to determine Absolute Path for your Mambo (or Joomla!) web site.

When uploading from a local testing server to a web server the absolute path also needs to be updated.
The absolute path is the directory where Mambo is located on the server hard drive.

This small PHP script will report the actual absolute path.

• Make a new PHP file and call it something like serverpath.php
• Right at the top, with no spaces before it, add this PHP Code:
  

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

• Place (upload) this script in the directory where you want to find the absolute path.
• Point a browser to this script and the path will appear in the browser.

On a Linux server, that will give you something like this example:
/var/www/example.com/httpdocs

In the Mambo or Joomla 1.0 configuration.php file, the above example would be used like this:

$mosConfig_absolute_path = '/var/www/example.com/httpdocs';

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