using leading slash with php on apache2 vhost

[fakester]

What do I have to do to make
require_once("/includes/some.inc.php")
point to my virtual host root instead of the server root?

My virt. host root is /srv/www/vhosts/scc/

I have many layers of directories inside of each virtual host that all pull from a central includes folder, and I need a simple way to just use "/includes/blah" from anywhere.

Thanks

[Musicman]

Hi,

maybe a
<Directory /include>
or a
php_value include_path
could help

Musicman

[ThePyromaniac]

Indeed musicman.

To save going into .htaccess, a simple

ini_set('include_path', './path/');

Will do it. This function will work on all 4.x versions, whereas the include_path() function (or whatever it is called) will only work from 4.3.x.

Hope this helps you.

[fakester]

I think my uncertainty about what I was doing made it difficult for me to ask the right question.

I changed the include_path setting in php.ini to point to my includes dir and it is working ok.

I thought there was a way to get apache to treat each vhost as it's own server and the leading / would only change to the root of the vhost, not all the way to the "real server" root.