Re: [binarycloud-dev] quickest, easiest install

[Alex B. <en...@tu...>]

hi Jimmy,

the below is very old code, and has been made obsolete by the make system.

we'll provide a 'shortcut' paths file for a quick install, but real configs
will require make.

_a



> Alex
> 
>> for the distro version of r2, I want to get to the point
>> where a user can download the system, untar it, point their
>> browser to it, and have a functioning installation.
> 
> This sounds like the best way to do it
> 
>> I'm going to build a very simple little file called
>> binarycloud.php which will be included from each page in
>> htdocs: include_once('binarycloud.php'); note the
>> "pathlessness" - i.e. binarycloud.php will be in your
>> include_path. the idea behind this is to set the constant
>> BC_PATH before anything else happens, but to avoid using
>> prepends, etc to get that working.
> 
> Agree - I don't like using prepend.
> 
>>     -does anyone know of a reason why
>>         $HTTP_SERVER_VARS[DOCUMENT_ROOT]
> 
> DOCUMENT_ROOT doesn't exist in IIS
> 
>> <?php
>> $pieces = explode('/', $HTTP_SERVER_VARS[DOCUMENT_ROOT]);
>> $count = count($pieces);
>> 
>> $cd_up = 1;
>> 
>> for ($i=1; $i <= $count-$cd_up; $i++) {
>>     $path .= '/'.$pieces[$i];
>> }
>> $path .= '/binarycloud';
> 
> Why not use dirname() ?
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Jimmy
> 
> 
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