Using header with a virtual server

worker201

I'm trying to use the header function to redirect to another page. The source and the destination are both locations on my locally configured Apache virtual host.

The following code works:

header("Location: http://my.local.host/directory/file.php");

The following code gives a 404 error:

header("Location: http://my.local.host/directory/file.php?var=x");

Does this have anything to do with the way my virtual server is handling URIs? Is there some other way to construct headers that allows explicit post values? Is there another way to redirect and/or pass values besides using header()?

NogDog

I don't see why the 2nd one would not work, unless you have something unusual going on in the web server config or local .htaccess file in terms of URL rewriting. Or, if your sample code is simplified, you may need to do some urlencoding of the query string, e.g.:

$value = "string with spaces and #!@ characters";
header("Location: http://localhost/file.php?var=" . urlencode($value));

worker201

I tried using urlencode(), but it didn't seem to have an effect.

The exact 404 message is this:

The requested URL /project1/intersect_start_special.php?city=seattle was not found on this server.

Obviously, that file doesn't exist. So the server is not parsing the post variables properly.

johanafm

worker201;10990254 wrote:
Obviously, that file doesn't exist. So the server is not parsing the post variables properly.

These two things do not even relate. Well, if a given url cannot be matched to a file, it's entirely possible that the web server skips parsing post data, since there's little use of doing that if no script file will handle it... But it is also entirely possible that a webserver does parse this data anyway to be able to pass it on to a generic 404 error handler script.

worker201;10990254 wrote:
The requested URL /project1/intersect_start_special.php?city=seattle was not found on this server.

Assuming there's no url rewriting being done, this url would match the file

/filesystem/path/to/webserver_docroot/project1/intersect_start_special.php

city=seattle would have nothing to do with finding a matching file for the url.