header() woes

[osgspanky]

Hello, I am new to the forums so bear with me.

I am trying to do a simple re-direct using the header function with php4.

Here is the situation. I do all of my coding on WinXP pro using IIS 5.

I then upload my files to my web server using Apache (not sure what version).

Anyways, I have been building a cookie based login system for my website and have been using the header function for my redirects.

I am using this format on my local computer.

header("Location: [url]http://[/url]" . $SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . dirname($SERVER['PHP_SELF']) . "/index.php");

This works like a charm on my local computer (IIS) but when I upload to my webserver I end up with 2 forward slashes in my URLs.

So it looks like this http://mysite//index.php.

This is leading to some errors that I do not experience on localhost.

I am just wondering if there is an apache setting or configuration that is causing this?

Of if I am faced with just hard coding URL's??? Which won't work on both so I will have to write 2 sets of code which I don't want to nor feel I should have to do???

Any help on this matter would be appreciated!

[MikeSnead]

The dirname() function will return a '/' on the PHP_SELF constant... just get rid of the '/' part on the "/index.php".

header("Location: [url]http://[/url]" . $SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . dirname($SERVER['PHP_SELF']) . "index.php");

Interestingly enough... the //index.php should still work... it's ugly... but it should work.

[osgspanky]

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunetly I tried that. It does work on the Apache server but on IIS I end up with a URL that looks like this.

http://mysiteindex.php 😕

I am thinking maybe I will just go with this line of code, I know its not recommended but all the files are in the same directory.

header("Location: index.php");

And just do the same for all my pages...

This is a bandaid.

Again thanks for your reply!!!