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I am having trouble setting the global $civicrm_root in civicdm.settings.php

Following the instructions in the file commenting, and advice from my host, the root setting should be:

$civicrm_root = '/home/example/public_html/civi/sites/all/modules/civicrm/';

for a site that has a public url of http://civi.example.org

and a base url that is consequently set as

define( 'CIVICRM_UF_BASEURL'      , 'http://civi.example.org/' );

However, these settings don't seem to work. Well, mostly they are fine, but the image uploader (kcfinder) and external links in mailings both return "page not found" errors. I have used a work-around bit of code for the above problem and think this might be the cause of the "page not found" trouble. Here's the workaround:

global $civicrm_root;

if (function_exists('drupal_get_path') && function_exists('conf_path')) {
  $drupal_root = DRUPAL_ROOT;
  $civicrm_module_dir = drupal_get_path('module', 'civicrm');
  if (preg_match('#^(.*/)drupal$#', $civicrm_module_dir, $m)) {
    $civicrm_root = $m[1];
  }
  else {
    throw new Exception('Unable to determine CiviCRM root path.');
  }
  $civicrm_conf_dir = conf_path();
}
elseif (preg_match('#^((.*)/sites/([^/]+)/modules/(|[^/]+/)civicrm)/extern/([^/]+)\.php$#', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'], $m)) {
  $drupal_root = $m[2];
  $civicrm_root = $m[1] . '/';
  if ($m[3] === 'all') {
    $civicrm_conf_dir = $m[2] . '/sites/default';
  }
  else {
    $civicrm_conf_dir = $m[2] . '/sites/' . $m[3];
  }
}
else {
  throw new Exception('Unable to determine CiviCRM root path.');
}

define( 'CIVICRM_TEMPLATE_COMPILEDIR', $civicrm_conf_dir . '/files/civicrm/templates_c/' );

error_reporting(0);


Any advice?