[wp-hackers] PHP as cgi, SCRIPT_NAME errors

[Carthik Sharma]

I see there is already and bug report, complete with patch, for this
one, at http://mosquito.wordpress.org/view.php?id=1353

Excuse this thread :)

Carthik.

On 5/13/05, Carthik Sharma <carthik at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/13/05, Owen Winkler <ringmaster at midnightcircus.com> wrote:
> > Carthik Sharma wrote:
> > > http://wordpress.org/support/topic/33564 is an example of the problem
> > > produced when php is running as cgi. In this case, it appears that
> > > $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] returns the cgi path rather than the required
> > > file.
> > >
> > > What's the best way to solve this, a search lead to beleive that using
> > > $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] should fix it, but I cannot begin to work out
> > > where all this will have to be changed :)
> > >
> > > Could something be done about this in the source, like in
> > > wp-settings.php or something?
> >
> > The opposite is often true on IIS.  Fixes for this for IIS begin in
> > wp-settings.php line 6, and it's centralized there by using the
> > reassigned $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] throughout the source.
> >
> 
> Yes, Owen, I knew and noticed that, which is why I ask if something
> similar needs to be done to wp-settings.php to deal with this cgi
> problem.
> 
> Carthik.
> 


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