Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot
Michael Torrie
torriem at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 10:46:35 EST 2013
On 01/18/2013 06:02 AM, Ferrous Cranus wrote:
> Yes my Python scripts exist in a linux web host.
>
> os.environ['HOME'] will indeed give the home directory of the user.
>
> to me /home/nikos/
>
> but i want a variable to point to
>
> /home/nikos/public_html whice is called DocumentRoot.
Not it's not. There is nothing in the operating system that defines this.
> is there avariable for that? i can't seem to find any...
Not there's nothing in the operating system that specifies this. This
is a convention that makes sense only to the apache daemon itself. If
your python script is running as a CGI script, then apache will set
environment variables that you can read with the os module. See the
Apache docs for information on this.
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