Get the full URL in PHP?

Question

I use this code to get the full URL: $actual_link = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; The problem is that I use some masks in my `.htaccess`, so what we see in the URL is not always the real path of the file. What I need is to get the URL, what is written in the URL, nothing more and nothing less—the full URL. I need to get how it appears in the Navigation Bar in the web browser, and not the real path of the file on the server.

Answer 1

you need to understand the concept of the "document root" of the web-server.

nothing to do with PHP really filesystem path. especially try to avoid using real path, for security issues.

the PHP file rendered by your web-server (say, apache, nginx, iis, tomcat, lighttpd) is jailed to directories or subdirectories beneath the "document root" which is access to public (under user www, group www usually).