Deploying site to Heart Internet

Hello Perch & Perchers!

I'm having some issues setting up a Perch site on HI - and it seems to be mainly down to how HI deal with determining a servers root folder, which in turn is knocking all my paths out of whack, to the point where Perch can't even see it's own initial runtime.

I'm wondering if anyone has an elegant solution for anything like this. So far my solution has been to define a new variable called PERCH_SITE_ROOT which appends the extra part of the path ( '/home/username/sites/public_html' ) to the runtime path. This solves a fair amount, but certain things like assets and the perch admin panel are still inaccessible as they rely on the '/' to reach site root. I also tried adding that new path to the front of the PERCH_LOGIN and PERCH_RES variables in the config, but it seems the assets need to re-saved / updated to take notice of this new path, and I can't do that without being able to get into admin, so I'm stuck chasing my tail a bit here.

In all honesty, I'd like to avoid as few paths as possible within Perch, as the more I change, the more the live copy goes out of whack with my local copy (which happily runs on a virtual host on MAMP).

I notice people have left guides on how to deal with cron jobs on HI, so I'm assuming people have successfully deployed to it before - if those people have any tips here it'd be great!

Cheers!

Liam