[wp-hackers] Re: [wp-svn] [2744] trunk/wp-settings.php: Fixes #1488

[Nikolay Bachiyski]

Nikolay Bachiyski wrote:
> Robert Deaton wrote:
> 
>> Reading around, PHP_SELF is set on all platforms but does not contain
>> the same information, specifically in regular cgi mode vs php-cgi
>> mode. If anybody has time to test various server setups to confirm.
> 
> 
> Hmm, Robert is right. For example under mod_php the request to
>     http://host/test.php/baba
> results in
>     PHP_SELF=/test.php/baba
> 
> My initial suggestions is to use SCRIPT_NAME if php is not run as cgi. 
> If php is running as cgi we can quite safely (can we really?) disregard 
> everything after the extension of the script name in PHP_SELF.

Update: when php is run as cgi (php_sapi_name(): "cgi-fcgi" (fast cgi)) 
requests with a slash after script's name result in an "No input file 
specified." error (apache 1.3, debian, cgi-fcgi).

> 
> However, some further tests on different servers/sapi's will be really 
> useful. If anybody is willing to test, we  shall need the following four 
> items:
>     - request uri
>     - output of php_sapi_name()
>     - value of $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']
>     - value of $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']
> 
> Nikolay.
> 
>>
>> On 8/3/05, Nikolay Bachiyski <nbachiyski at developer.bg> wrote:
>>
>>> m at wordpress.org wrote:
>>>
>>>> // Fix for IIS, which doesn't set REQUEST_URI
>>>> -if (! isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])) {
>>>> -     $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
>>>> +if ( empty( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ) ) {
>>>> +     $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']; // Does 
>>>> this work under CGI?
>>>
>>>
>>> It does not (or at least - not always). When php scripts are run in cgi
>>> environment (I have tested on Apache only) the SCRIPT_NAME variable is
>>> set to "/cgi-bin/php4-wrapper" or something equally unusable for our
>>> purposes. However the PHP_SELF variable always gives us the relative
>>> path to the current script.
>>>
>>> Nikolay.
>>>
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