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I'm pretty sure this is a common question:

I've been using XAMPP for about a month now, switching over from AppServ. (Loving it BTW).

However i cant seem to get my paths to link to my root directory when i use a forward slash before the path name "/file.php" (example) on my localhost. It works fine when i upload to my online server but i dont wanna have to keep uploading to debug.

PLEASE HELP!

Thanks loads for the info.

I've however decided to use absolute paths for this. ie. http://localhost/directory/ and before uploading i'll simply do a find n replace with my actual domain name. ie http://www.domain.com/

do you mean sth like this?

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<?php
// script heading
If (($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] == "C:/xampp/htdocs") ? $rootpath = "C:/xampp/htdocs" : $rootpath = "/HOST_ROOT");
$inc_path = $rootpath."/inc";
require_once ($inc_path."/common_settings.php" ); //setting main parameter used in scripts, depending on xampp or hosted
// other script
?>

hint: internal links are differnt too