[shadybirdstan]

I'm reading a book about web programming and its telling me to put the following in an .htaccess file:

Code:
php_value include_path
".:/usr/lib/php/:/var/www/html/_lib/_base:/var/www/html/_lib/_classes:/var/www/html/site:/var/www/html/core:/var/www/html/pear"

php_calue register_globals "Off"

It then states:

Our web server's root directory is /var/www/html, but you may need to adjust this to comply with your setup.

I'm a little confused about what this means and the people who wrote the book no longer support it, so I was hoping to find some help here .

Should I change the "/var/www/html" to "/~shadybirdstan/thesitename/" or put the direct path to the folder the site is in or what? I know I'm missing something basic here because they mention it almost in passing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[redJag]

The directory you put it in will be the one affected. If you put it in your base directory, it affects all directories above it. If you want it to affect only your user then put it in the user directory. I'm not on my mac and I can't recall the exact paths.. sorry.

[shadybirdstan]

Originally posted by redJag:
The directory you put it in will be the one affected. If you put it in your base directory, it affects all directories above it. If you want it to affect only your user then put it in the user directory. I'm not on my mac and I can't recall the exact paths.. sorry.

I thought it effected all the pages below until it reaches another .htaccess file?

My questions is really more to what is meant by my web server's root directory.

[philzilla]

Originally posted by shadybirdstan:
My questions is really more to what is meant by my web server's root directory.

you've given us nothing to work with. be more specific. are you working on a remote server, or locally on your OS X machine?

default OS X web server root dir path:

/library/webserver/documents

[shadybirdstan]

Yes, that's what I meant...thanks :-).

[redJag]

oops i probably used the wrong terminology. below sounds better. anything contained in the directory sounds safe. my bad!