PW3 index.php - symlink confusing assignment of $rootPath

[Gazley]

Hi there,

I have my development files in:

/Users/gazley/hsa/ProcessWire

I have a symlink in my document root folder like so:

/Applications/MAMP/htdocs  ᐅ ls -l hsa
lrwxr-xr-x  1 gazley  admin  33 10 Mar 16:19 hsa -> /Users/gazley/hsa/ProcessWire

In latest PW3 index.php, line 28, it says:

$rootPath = __DIR__;

which returns:

 /Users/gazley/hsa/ProcessWire

It actually needs to return the path based on the document root and not the path the symlink is actually pointing to. Obviously, this breaks everything thereafter!

I normally develop PW under the MAMP document root but on this occasion, I built from an HTML mockup in my home directory subsequently pointing to it from the document root (as per the symlink specified above).

If anyone has an idea whether it is possible to do what I want to do without upsetting PW, I'd appreciate it!

Many thanks.

[horst]

I'm using symlinks too, but I use it for the /site/... folders only, because I do not work on the wire/... folders:

/www/public_html/wire/ == is physically in the htdocsdirectory of apache

/www/public_html/site/ == symlinked to e.g. /Users/me/myproject/site/

/www/public_html/index.php == is physically in the htdocs directory of apache

[Gazley]

Thanks @horst - some great things for me to try there. I can see the sense of just having index.php in the physical document root! Cheers