RE: [cobalt-users] Path to users web directory question

["Russell" <rga@xxxxxx>]

> its more difficult for them to remember and I don't think they need to
know
> if there are 150 sites on the server or 15 sites on the server.

   I wouldn't worry about that ..
   Hypermart is always turning up absolute paths like
   ../server9174/ .. and that's not sites, but servers !!

   Most folks never even know it


   For cgi scripts always use the absolute path:

   /home/sites/site#/web/


   CGI is looking for the real disk path and file.
   www.sitename.com/ does not exist as far as CGI is concerned

   virtual pointers are not real ..
   so scripts never find fils located in non real places

   if you follow a virtual link to domain.com in your FTP
   then you will see it ends up in the real location anyway

    /home/sites/site# ..


    You can also set paths in cgi scripts
    by using the docroot var ..

    $file = '/home/sites/site1/web/cgi/script.cgi';


    can be done this way:

    $file = $ENV{DOCUMENT_ROOT} . '/cgi/script.cgi';


    You gotta get the forward slash right.

    -- RGA