Title: Installation problem:relative path Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Installation problem:relative path * Anonymous * [22 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problemrelative-path/) * I’ ve installed wordpress. Instalation message was ok, but then nothing was displayed when loading index.php or b2login.php. I`ve modified the config file adding “ $abspath = ‘../wordpress/’;” at the bottom of it, and then there was the main page . But now when I try to log in, entering username and password a blank page is shown. Can anybody help me ?. Thanks . Here the end lines of my b2config. php file: $relpath = ”; $url = explode(‘/’, $siteurl); for ($i = 3; $i < count( $url); $i++) { $relpath .= ‘/’. $url[$i]; } $abspath = getenv(‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’). $relpath . ‘/’; $b2inc = “/$b2inc”; $pathserver = &$siteurl; $abspath = ‘../wordpress/’; Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problemrelative-path/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problemrelative-path/page/2/?output_format=md) * [thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomas/) * (@thomas) * [22 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problemrelative-path/#post-21553) * Well, I think you don’t need to add the $abspath = ‘../wordpress/’; Just remove that line. If you want to install it in your /wordpress/ folder, just change this line: $siteurl = ‘[http://www.yoursiteurl.com/wordpress’](http://www.yoursiteurl.com/wordpress’);;… just change that url into your WP directory… * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problemrelative-path/#post-21554) * changing only $siteurl to ‘http://www.yoursiteurl.com/wordpress” does not work. In my b2config.php file siteurl was set to “[http://www.yoursiteurl.com/wordpress”](http://www.yoursiteurl.com/wordpress”); Index.php is only displayed ok if I put $abspath = ‘../wordpress/’; at the bottom of b2 config.php file, other options =blank index.php page * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [22 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problemrelative-path/#post-21555) * If you do set $abspath manually, it should be an absolute path to the root of your filesystem. Something like `$abspath = "/home/username/public_html/wordpress"`. * [philipx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philipx/) * (@philipx) * [22 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problemrelative-path/#post-21736) * I’m having the same problem and I believe there are a couple of problems (0.7): 1) b2config.php line 332 (all approx, I may have modified it, sorry) $abspath = getenv(‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’) . $relpath . ‘/’; $b2inc = “/$b2inc”; However, in b2login. php right at the top you have: require_once($abspath.$b2inc.’/b2template.functions. php’); obviously this is going to end up wrong because $abspath ends with ‘/’ therefore you’ll have something like: /var/www/html/wordpress//b2inc/b2template… the double // (one from $abspath one from “/$b2inc”) leads to a bad path. if you take the / from the end of $abspath, you’ll most likely run into problems in places like wp-admin/b2edit.showpost.php:231 because: include($abspath.’blog. header.php’); it’ll obviously search for: …/html/wordpressblog.header.php (no/ in between). Hopefully all these problems would be eventually fixed. Thanks! * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [22 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problemrelative-path/#post-21737) * I’ve never had problems with double // in paths. It just ignores it. * [philipx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philipx/) * (@philipx) * [22 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problemrelative-path/#post-21738) * obivously not on my system (RH 8, PHP 4.3.2) because it keeps complaining about not finding the files 🙂 * [absolut](https://wordpress.org/support/users/absolut/) * (@absolut) * [22 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problemrelative-path/#post-21749) * I had the same problem too, the getenv(‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’) showed /home/httpd/html, which isn’t where I put my files. I manually set the $abspath variable though and it worked after that. * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [22 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problemrelative-path/#post-21753) * Absolut path. That’s a parody waiting to happen. * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problemrelative-path/#post-21782) * where´s the new version allusion promised with an alternative to servers where DOCUMENT_ROOT is not set properly. I´m a b2 user (i had no problem setting it up on my server), ..i hope someday i will be a wordpress user. * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [22 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problemrelative-path/#post-21799) * Try replacing `getenv('DOCUMENT_ROOT') . $relpath` with `dirname(__FILE__) ` and tell me how that goes. * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problemrelative-path/#post-21819) * in my profile i have 4 posts, but none is shown in edit/post. * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problemrelative-path/#post-21820) * I just add “/” to 3th line in index.php an index is displayed ok. All my test post are shown, but still i cannot edit posts because none is in the edit/post page. * [tvleavitt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tvleavitt/) * (@tvleavitt) * [22 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problemrelative-path/#post-21859) * allusion: your suggestion worked (I had the same problem, with DOCUMENT_ROOT pointing somewhere else (shared server environment). * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [22 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problemrelative-path/#post-21860) * .72 isn’t going to have this problem. * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problemrelative-path/#post-21864) * Thanks allusion…I`ll be waiting anxious for .72 .I hope then i will be able to post with wordpress. 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