Hello. I'm relying on the following code so that a script can automatically detect where it's installed and create paths and URLs from the information. This way absolute paths and URLs are always used.

I've had a couple people report that the script wasn't finding the paths correctly, though, so I'm asking if people could test this out on their server and see if it detects the paths or not.

<?php
        //Install path (path to survey.class.php)
        $path = dirname($_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED']);

//Determine protocol of web pages
if(isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && strcasecmp($_SERVER['HTTPS'],'ON') == 0)
{ $protocol = 'https://'; }
else
{ $protocol = 'http://'; }


        //HTML address of this program
        $dir_name = dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);
        if($dir_name == '\\')
        { $dir_name = ''; }

$html = $protocol . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $dir_name;

//Determine web address of current page
$current_page = $protocol . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];


        echo "Path to script: $path<br />";
        echo "URL to script directory: $html<br />";
        echo "URL to current script: $current_page";
?>

It should print out the file system path to where the script was placed as well as a URL to the directory it was placed and a URL to the file itself.

I've never had an issue with it personally and I've tested it on Apache and IIS on both Windows and Linux. So maybe it's some obscure CGI or OS configuration where this isn't working? I just need to know so I can plan accordingly.

The only two substitutions that can be made (that I know of) are:

$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] => $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']
and
$_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED'] => $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']

If it doesn't work for you, does it work if you do one of those substitutions?

Also, this will test if the script is in subdirectories or not, also, so testing it within one and seeing if that works, too, is appreciated.

Thanks for any help and time you're willing to provide.

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