PHP Includes - $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] for Temporary URL and Live URL?

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Hey everyone,
I have an issue with how the PHP includes are being picked up on my temporary URLs http://IPADDRESS/~USERNAME/SITENAME/ compared to my live URL http://LIVEDOMAIN.com

The PHP code that I am using is
? include($_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] . ‘/inc/php/header.php’); ?>

and it works great on the live domain because I guess it picks up the DOCUMENT_ROOT as the folder I set that domain up to be in cPanel?

But when I try to load the site on my temporary URL it says that it can’t find the PHP include.

I’m on a shared host and I am the owner of many websites which is why they are within my username and sitename folders like that. Should I be using something else other than DOCUMENT_ROOT in order to view both the temporary URL and the live URL correctly?

Hope that makes sense!

Thanks,

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Yes, the document root is in a different location in that scenario. My solution to this is to place sites temporarily in a subdomain. E.g. client.mydomain.com

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How would subdomains work for temporary URLs though?
Wouldn’t my temporary URL be my shared host IP + username?

In this case http://50.97.101.243/~username/

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If you are allowed to set up a subdomain on your own site (and most hosts will let you do that) you could set up a test site at an address like [noparse]http://dev.mysite.com[/noparse]. Uploading your files there will mean that they will have their own root folder and everything will work as it will when the site is loaded to its final destination.