Absolute Pathways

[Guest_imported]

I have a cgi script within which I need to insert an absolute path pointing to a txt file. The server is Apache, running Linux as operating sysyem. Though the file structure is different on every server, what is generally the correct syntax for a pathway to the server root? Would it be something like: /home/usr/myname/

http://www/Data/filename.txt

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[johnhoke]

Well, is it an absolute FILESYSTEM path or URL path?

I am assuming that your web root directory (where index.html or similar is) is located in /home/usr/myname/www
so if you want an absolute FILESYSTEM path, you are correct above... if it is an absolute URL path, then it would be just the /Data/file.txt

Hope that helps

-john