How to get the server path to the web directory in Symfony2 from inside the controller

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The question is as follows   How can I get the server path to the web directory in Symfony2 from inside the controller  or from anywhere else for that reason   What I ve already found  also  by searching here    This is advised in the cookbook article on Doctrine file handling   path     DIR                   web     Found by searching around  only usable from inside the controller  or service with kernel injected     path    this- gt get  kernel  - gt getRootDir          web     So  is there absolutely no way to get at least that  web  part of the path  What if I  for example  decided to rename it or move or something   Everything was easy in the first symfony  when I could get like everything I needed from anywhere in the code by calling the static sfConfig  get   method

User · Answer

You also can get it from any ContainerAware (f.i. Controller) class from the request service:

If you are using apache as a webserver (I suppose for other webservers the solution would be similar) and are using virtualhosting (your urls look like this - localhost/app.php then you can use:
```
$container->get('request')->server->get('DOCUMENT_ROOT');
// in controller:
$this->getRequest()->server->get('DOCUMENT_ROOT');
```

Else (your urls look like this - localhost/path/to/Symfony/web/app.php:

$container->get('request')->getBasePath();
// in controller:
$this->getRequest()->getBasePath();

User · Answer

Since Symfony 3 3   You can use  kernel project dir  web  instead of  kernel root dir     web

User · Answer

My solution is to add this code to the app php  define  WEB DIRECTORY     DIR       The problem is that in command line code that uses the constant will break  You can also add the constant to app console file and the other environment front controllers  Another solution may be add an static method at AppKernel that returns DIR      web   So you can access everywhere

User · Answer

There s actually no direct way to get path to webdir in Symfony2 as the framework is completely independent of the webdir   You can use getRootDir   on instance of kernel class  just as you write  If you consider renaming  web dir in future  you should make it configurable  For example AsseticBundle has such an option in its DI configuration  see here and here

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UPDATE  Since 2 8 this no longer works because assetic is no longer included by default  Although if you re using assetic this will work   You can use the variable  assetic write to     this- gt getParameter  assetic write to     Since your assets depend on this variable to be dumped to your web directory  it s safe to assume and use to locate your web folder   http   symfony com doc current reference configuration assetic html

User · Answer

You are on Symfony  think  Dependency Injection       In all my SF project  I do in parameters yml   web dir    kernel root dir     web    So I can safely use this parameter within controller    this- gt getParameter  web dir

User · Answer

For Symfony3  In your controller try   request- gt server- gt get  DOCUMENT ROOT    request- gt getBasePath

User · Answer

host    request- gt server- gt get  HTTP HOST     base     empty  request- gt server- gt get  BASE        request- gt server- gt get  BASE          getBaseUrl    host  base

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To access the root directory from outside the controller you can simply inject  kernel root dir  as an argument in your services configuration   service name      class  Namespace Bundle etc     arguments     kernel root dir      Then you can get the web root in the class constructor   public function   construct  rootDir         this- gt webRoot   realpath  rootDir        web

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