Had to go through some trouble trying to install on a Hosting Service where XOOPS ROOT PHYSICAL PATH is set to /

During install on Path settings page XOOPS documents root physical path is requested. I typed "/" (no quotes) and that is automatically deleted. So I tried "//" and both get deleted. The only way to get passed issue is typing ".."

Installation all works but when you get to main page menu links are set to "../something" and one goes no where. I then edited mainfile.php manually and changed



cleared the cache and system worked.

Is this a bug or intended???

I think this is intended, because on a web server you normally don't have access to the systems root path.

And if you type the path with an ending slash (e.g. /srv/www/ ) the slash at the end is deleted.

Yes, true. Got your point and after a good night sleep I had come to the same conclusion.

It is though, still a hassle to install XOOPS on a hosting system with the above characteristics, having htdoc as root. Therefore thought it had to be mentioned as an installation problem.

In some other post I have read something about getcwd() that returns the current working directory. This could be used during install to autoset the documents root physical path, couldn't it?