有没有办法以与远程服务器相同的格式（如/ home / MyUserName / public_html）获取localhost上的文档根目录？

Question

CodeIgniter documentations says:

For the best security, both the system and any application folders should be placed above web root so that they are not directly accessible via a browser. After moving them, open your main index.php file and set the $system_folder and application_folder variables, preferably with a full path, e.g. '/www/MyUser/system'.

and through echoing the PHP $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] variable I've gotten the document root of my remote server, which was /home/MyUserName/public_html but when I tried to do the same on my localhost I've gotten a different type of pathes (a windows path), it was D:/xampp/htdocs. Why? and Is there a way through which I can get a path like the first one on my localhost?

Answer 1

It's always preferable to develop/test on the target platform (Linux here), but you can have a look at something like http://cygwin.com/ if you want to stay developing on Windows. It will get you closer.