[RESOLVED] curious url behaviour

daggardan

I haven't had any luck googling this question - and I've been at it for hours 🙂. If somebody's already answered it, I'm sorry!

I have a script that with a url of /something.php, i expect to be able to pass parameters into my script using a url like /something.php/my/params - this is correct and I use it frequently.

Curiously, /something/my/params behaves the same way as /something.php/my/params. THIS behaviour is NOT desired. On top of being un-wanted behaviour, it somehow prevents apache from applying mod rewrite rules.

Is there a php or apache directive that I can set/call that will "correct" this behaviour?

many thanks in advance!
Tim.

bpat1434

Seems like you have a mod_rewrite issue. By default, php uses ?var=val URL strings. To change that, you have to be using a rewrite rule.

What code are you using in order to translate /var/val into ?var=val

daggardan

While I agree that it feels like a mod rewrite issue .. it isn't .. at least not in the conventional sense. There is no rewriting being done (explicityly) to acheive what I've described.

To answer your question about translating the url at /something/my/params i'm doing some pattern matching in the script on the REQUEST_URI to get at the parameters - - but that's not the issue.

The issue is that some setting (i'm guessing in the php.ini file) that has php interpreting /something/text/text.html as /something.php (as long as there is no directory called "/something" ), and that's the behaviour I want to stop! 🙂

bpat1434

Except there is no php.ini setting. It's your script, or mod_rewrite. php.ini has nothing except the argument separator string. Post your code...

bradgrafelman

The problem you're facing is with Apache's MultiViews option. MultiViews allows you to omit the file extension from the URL and, if no directory is present with that name, Apache will search for a filename with that name (and automatically append .php, for example).

To disable this, either look in the httpd.conf file for the <Directory> section for the root of your website and remove the MultiViews word from the Options line, or create a .htaccess file in the root of your site that contains "Options -MultiViews" (without the quotes, obviously).

bpat1434

This is why I never use MultiViews... it can be an annoying thing. Plus, there's nothing I can't do with some ingenuity and mod_rewrite 😉

daggardan

well .. thank you both for your insight .. it was the "MultiViews" directive ... all better now .. and much happier for it 🙂.

thank you once again.

regards,
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