[Xitami] PHP problems on Xitami server on local machine

[stilman.davis at telinco.co.uk]

I don't know whether this is a problem with php 5 or with xitami server.

I want to use a variable that changes from site to site/directory to 
directory; this seems to have worked in a previous incarnation of php 
with xitami. I would define the root directory with 
"http://localhost/thissite" and things seem to have worked.

Unfortunately, if I use the $_SERVER variable now I get the result 
"localhost/webpages/thissite". However, this result does not bring up a 
page the browser can find. Somehow "webpages" is being delivered. This 
makes a mess of any automatic referral to other pages.

If I add "http://" to this new variable created with the $_SERVER value, 
no page is served up, in fact Xitami seems to take a long time trying to 
figure what is being asked. Without the "http://" the rogue value is 
brought straight up. Even if I make up the variable with what I know to 
be a valid address, anything with the "http://" fails as a variable, if 
I use this variable without the "http://" in a header nothing happens.

I am stumped. Any ideas? Thanks for your help in advance.

Regards,
Stilman Davis