Access a file outside of root/htdocs on windows in PHP

0
votes

How can i access a file outside of htdocs folder on windows? I have a config file outside of my root (htdocs) folder, in which i want to save off the configuration for my database connection, but when i call it, it says no file found.

i am cureently in the following directory: xampp\htdocs\includes

and my config file is in: \xampp\inc

i tried to echo the path, but i didn't get any output

echo realpath('../..inc/config.php') . PHP_EOL;

if (!file_exists('../../inc/config.php')) {
          throw new Exception("No config file found!");
        }
1
phpwindowsxampp
Is there a typo in the first path or did you miscopy? – Dharman
At what stage does it say file not found? Is it at the stage where you try to echo the realpath() or does it get to throw the Exception? – NaijaProgrammer
recheck the folder level. your code works fine for mentioned scenario – prasanna puttaswamy

1 Answers

1
votes

i got it to work with 

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . '/inc/config.php'