Header(Location) problem with PHP as CGI

Anon

Hello,

I'm desperate here...

I'm developing a site that runs perfectly on a server with the PHP
module in apache.
The problem is that the site will be hosted on a server with PHP as
CGI (from PHPinfo:Version 4.0.4pl1, Configure Command './configure'
'--prefix=/usr/local/php' '--enable-static' '--enable-safe-mode=yes'
'--enable-track-vars=yes' '--enable-memory-limit=yes'
'--enable-short-tags=no' '--with-gd=/usr/local'
'--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql' '--enable-force-cgi-redirect' )

I have a couple of Header( Location: )'s in the site that are not
working properly.
The redirect actualy happens BUT the address in the addressbar of the
browser doesn't change.
A little example: the first time someone visits he has to choose his
language. At that moment a cookie is set.
The next time he reaches the www.site.com/index.html some code checks
for the cookie and he should get redirected to the first page in his
language, that is www.site.com/language/home/index.html
What actualy happens is that he gets to see the page but in the
addressbar it still shows www.site.com/index.html This gives a couple
of problems:
when the user clicks refresh on his browser, the address in the
addressbar gets refreshed and not the page he got redirected to.
on that first page there is a java applet that doesn't get found (it
looks for it in the root instead of in the home-directory.

I hope this all is a littlebit understandable ...

I don't know if this is important but I added a .htaccess in the root
that forces .html to get parsed as php:

Action application/x-httpd-php /cgi/php.cgi
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .html

I don't think this has something to do with it but I add it just in
case.

Thanks to anyone who can shed some light on my problem!

Bert

brandonschnell

then set the location using a meta refresh tag or a bit of javascript.

rrijnders

Usually when that happens it is because the page the browser is being re-dicrected to is not completing or fully loading. Do a 'view source' on the target page and see if it completely loads or if it is abending on an incomplete tag or javascript error.

Also, you can try to put the <BASE> tag in the header of the target page indicating the new base url for requests on that page.

HTH

-- Rich Rijnders
-- Irvine, CA US

Anon

Bert,
I know this thread is old..but you may still need it. I was having ongoing problems with either the url not actually changing and sometimes the header not even working (and no..I wasn't echoing out HTML already). Turns out it was because I had open connections to mysql database that I had never closed. I have no idea if this is just using php on windows with cgi or not (but that is what I'm using). When I started making sure I always used mysql_close($connection); Tah-Dah! instant redirect with the right URL. So check your scripts for any open connections and see if that helps.
Tinuviel