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by gumballindie 1009 days ago
> The mere concept of a "document root" is a problem though and a major footgun if you don't know what you're doing.

A non issue though after 2-3 days of working with this approach. All modern PHP frameworks have a so called front controller (an index.php file) that loads what it requires from ../ after, ideally, properly validating the request to avoid issues.

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> A non issue though after 2-3 days of working with this approach.

Tell that to all the people with bleeding feet.