[wp-hackers] wp-config.php defining value of ABSPATH

[Utkarsh Dixit]

What I meant was let my wordpress be installed in a location like

http://example.com/web/wp/

but my wp-config.php file (not any other) is in

http://example.com/web/

folder, then if I open

http://example.com/web/wp-config.php

it will give a fatal error on the line :

require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');


because of the condition

if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');


Thanks for pointing out that it is defined in wp-load.php  probably mixed
up the names (being still new to wordpress).



On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Nikola Nikolov <nikolov.tmw at gmail.com>wrote:

> It's actually defined in wp-load.php and the correct way of including just
> WordPress(without parsing the request and displaying the correct template)
> is actually by including wp-load.php and not wp-config.php.
>
> Basically wp-load.php looks in two locations for wp-config.php:
>
> ABSPATH . 'wp-config.php'
>
> and
>
> dirname( ABSPATH ) . '/wp-config.php'
>
> In the second case, wp-load.php also makes sure that in the directory where
> the wp-config.php resides there is no wp-settings.php, because if there is,
> that means that this wp-config file is actually part of a different
> install.
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Utkarsh Dixit <utkarsh.dixit11 at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm just a beginner to wordpress so it might sound a little naive, in
> > wp-config.php file we have following lines of code just before including
> > 'wp-settings.php'
> >
> > if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
> > define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');
> >
> >
> > Seems useless to me as we already define ABSPATH in wp-blog-header.php
> and
> > suppose if we directly open our wp-config.php file then also if it is a
> > level above the wordpress root directory the ABSPATH is set to the
> > directory a level above the wordpress root directory which gives a fatal
> > error when we include the wp-settings.php file in the next step.Can't we
> do
> > it like this?
> >
> > if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
> > define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');
> >
> > if(file_exists(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php'))
> >          require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');
> >
> >
> > It helps in removing the Fatal error which might occur.
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