Any known problems with local Apache on Mac OSX?

Jim_Nayzium

I just got my local machine ready to run php4 and mySql. It is running Mac OSX tiger...

I got the php running smoothly, but my url variables won't work.

Here is the live version

http://audeum.com/advantages_var.php?id=edit_advantages/edit_advantages_upgrade.htm

but when I run it locally, all the php includes work for the flash banner and header and footer, but the ?id= part doesn't execute locally, but it obviously does on the live site...

Is there something special to do in order to make the local machine see the URL variables??

devinemke

perhaps your local and live servers have disparate register_globals settings?

vaaaska

Two problems I have...

sometimes page encoding simply isn't going to work (accents)
javascript image caching for some reason can bonk out at 64kb when another machine accesses the host machine

ramsey

Have you tried getting the variables using the superglobal arrays instead of relying on register_globals? The default setting for register_globals in PHP is now Off, and it will go away in PHP 6.

Use $_GET['id'] instead of $id to reference the query string variables.

For more information, see here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php
http://www.php.net/registerglobals

If this is how you're already accessing variables, then I'd need more information to help.

ramsey

By the way, you should filter that id variable there and make sure that it contains only the path to files you have explicitly defined. For example:

<?php

$clean = array();

switch ($_GET['id'])
{
    case 'edit_advantages/edit_advantages_quality.htm':
    case 'edit_advantages/edit_advantages_warranty.htm':
    case 'edit_advantages/edit_advantages_upgrade.htm':
    case 'edit_advantages/edit_advantages_maintenance.htm':
    case 'edit_advantages/edit_advantages_expertise.htm':
    case 'edit_advantages/edit_advantages_support.htm':
        $clean['id'] = $_GET['id'];
        break;
}

?>

Then, in the rest of your script, use only $clean['id'] and not $GET['id'], since $GET['id'] should be considered tainted and contain possibly malicious data.

If you want more information about this, send me a PM, and I'll show you why this is important.

Jim_Nayzium

I will try all of these and post back.

Thanks for all the help folks!