PHP_self, apache and mysql problems

Cuban

ive just installed my server(win2k) with php 4.1.2, apache 2 and mysql 4.0.13
everything works fine except for when using the $php_self function in any form i get this error:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /db_tools/ Warning: Undefined variable: _server in C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/db_tools/create_db.php on line 18 on this server.

please can someone help!!
Cuban

tsinka

Hi,

this might be a configuration issue. Can you post/attach your httpd.conf and your php.ini

Cuban

This is the php.ini

Cuban

and this is the httpd.conf

Cuban

future ref for anyone who has this problem:
a temp fix is to leave the form tag blank. the default action is to submit to itself.

tsinka

Hi,

I'd suggest to try the sapi version of php by adding LoadModule mod_php4 <pathto/php4apache2.dll>

Besides that php4 in general is very unstable on apache 2.x. php-4.1.2 is more unstable that 4.3.2.

The best solution would be to use apache 1.3.27 until php 4.x becomes stable on apache 2.x.

I had several problems using php 4.x with apache 2 on Windows. I installed it several times and had problems on many of that installs. It sometimes worked without problem and sometimes I had problems like garbled form input names when accessing them with $_POST.

How did you try to access $php_self and what did you get as result ?

You might want to try the php extract function which can make e.g. posted variables globally available as $variable instead of using $POST (same for $SERVER).

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.extract.php

Thomas