PHP absolute server path to website (the easy and fastest way)

8 Jun 2010

This post was last updated on June 2010, it may be out of date or inaccurate.

Here’s a quick note for all those people wondering what the absolute path to their server is. There are many tools and solutions around the Internet that help you find it, as well as php_info() but all of them seem overcomplicated. The easiest and quickest way to do it is by using a simple stupid trick:

Create a PHP file and add some invalid code such as random letters:

Now save your file as test.php and upload it to the web server root folder.

Open it with your browser, an error message like this should appear:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/w093jsf/hello/public_html/test.php on line 2

That’s it! The home path for this example is: /home/w093jsf/hello/public_html/.

Error not showing?

If you can’t see any errors you may need to enable the debugger by activating/displaying PHP error reporting.

Code to display PHP absolute path

Here’s the code ready to copy and paste:

<?php
ini_set('display_errors',1);
error_reporting(E_ALL|E_STRICT);
this be an errorz wohoooo!!

That’s it, get those 4 lines of code and paste them in a new file.

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