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Because I'm constantly bitten by this myself I'm playing with some ways to make it easier to configure CiviCRM - at least for those running on top of Drupal.

Here's a start:

$civicrm_root = getcwd() . '/sites/all/modules/civicrm';
define( 'CIVICRM_TEMPLATE_COMPILEDIR', '/' . getcwd() . '/sites/default/files/civicrm/templates_c/' );
define( 'CIVICRM_UF_BASEURL'      , 'http://' . $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] . base_path());

Next thing is to also acquire the /sites/all/modules/civicrm/ and /sites/default/files/ part through the Drupal API.