[eluser]jwindhorst[/eluser]
[quote author="baalwww" date="1231458471"]Sure, but when you move the project from a domain where the document root = "/" (mydomain.com/" to a domain where the document root is two directories up (public_html/mydomain/applications/) you'd have to go in and edit everything.[/quote]
Well, fixing the hardcoded URL's once I wouldn't describe as "editing everything". It's a one off fix that can mostly then be forgotten about.
I'm sure we could have shortened this whole mini-thread quite a bit if you had told me that you were using Godaddy's hosting
. They do a great job with domains (at least the prices are great) but I've found there other services to be a headache at best and a show stopper at worst.
For consistency in my code, I use the "/" at the beginning, but I also manage my own servers so I don't have to worry that my httpd.conf doesn't have proper virtual hosts for any of our subdomains that live on the same server. Which really is what we are talking about I think.