wp-load.php dirname(ABSPATH) changes to wrong directory.

[amereservant]

On line 31 of my wp-load.php file, I have the following:

} elseif ( file_exists( dirname(ABSPATH) . '/wp-config.php' ) && ! file_exists( dirname(ABSPATH) . '/wp-settings.php' ) ) {

The problem is with the dirname(ABSPATH) part since I was installing it into a sub-directory and this causes it to convert ABSPATH to the parent directory instead. I caught this when I had a temporary wp-config.php file in my parent directory and the install screen would never load.

The fix should be changing dirname(ABSPATH) to realpath(ABSPATH) or to just use the ABSPATH constant and remove the forward slash from line 31.

[nacin]

This is a feature. wp-config.php can appear one level up, as long as it does not belong to another install (hence the check for wp-settings as well).

The point is to allow for WordPress to be set up as an SVN external, thus the directory structure would look like:

• wp-config.php
• wordpress/
• custom-content-directory/