[users@httpd] suggestions on faking DOCUMENT_ROOT

[scott leonard <bz...@scottleonard.org>]

the server variable DOCUMENT_ROOT has long been a issue for me.   i've 
resisted using mod_vhost_alias for a long time, but recently 
implemented it.

the issue, that many might be familiar with, is that mod_vhost_alias 
doesn't set DOCUMENT_ROOT, so all my portable web applications that use 
this variable to find their absolute path, break and need to be 
hardwired to their current path.  this sucks and is not elegant to me.

and to further it's stubbornness, it seems this is the one variable i 
can't manually set via apache's 'SetEnv' directive.

i'm reaching out and looking for a good list of clever solutions to 
this ridiculous problem and possibly a good explanation/philosophy of 
why it still exists.

thanks.
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