Problem: Apache Environment Variables

mp3-heaven

Apache Problem:

<?
$nav = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
$script = $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"];
echo $script; 
echo $nav;
?>

PHP can not read the Apache Environment Variables, thus there is no return.

What can I do?

It must be my local Apache config, since it is runnig well on my provider's server.

cfoster

The problem with tracking down the answer here is that they seem to be called "register globals" not "environment variables." :grumbles:

Anyway, edit the file:

/etc/httpd/httpd.conf

and at the end of this file add:

php_flag register_globals on

You can also edit the php.ini file and add

register_globals true

(I'm not sure what the correct format is for a php.ini file.)

-Colin.

cfoster

HOWEVER...

It seems there are some really good reasons for NOT turning register_globals on:

http://www.php.net/release_4_1_0.php

As of 4.1.0 it's better to use these associative arrays:

* $_GET - contains form variables sent through GET
* $_POST - contains form variables sent through POST
* $_COOKIE - contains HTTP cookie variables
* $_SERVER - contains server variables (e.g., REMOTE_ADDR)
* $_ENV - contains the environment variables (e.g., $_ENV["REQUEST_URI"] )
* $_REQUEST - a merge of the GET variables, POST variables and Cookie variables. In other words - all the information that is coming from the user, and that from a security point of view, cannot be trusted.
* $_SESSION - contains HTTP variables registered by the session module

-Colin.