problem with Apache 2

Anon

I've just upgraded to Apache 2 on my linux box, installed the latest stable PHP4 and am having some weird problems 🙂

I know very little about PHP, but I think the install went okay. I made the changes recommended in httpd.conf and the server restarted okay.

PHP pages are happily being served by Apache, but PHP seems to ignoring any name/pair values being passed by the web browser - for example, with the following URL:

http://myserver/test.php?testvalue=abc

PHP doesn't seem to be able to see "testvalue" at all 🙁

Has anyone got any ideas?!?

Many thanks in advance!

igebert

In recent PHP versions the "register_globals" option is turned off by default to encourage safe programming.

Have a look at this:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.registerglobals.php

Regards,
Ingmar

Anon

...problem solved 🙂

For some reason, uncommenting "register_globals" and setting it to "On" in the Data Handling section of php.ini did absolutely nothing... but if I insert it near the beginning of php.ini it suddenly works!

Guess I'll stick to programming in mod_perl - at least I know what I'm doing with that!

Anon

Cheers Ingmar - sorry, I replied to my own message and didn't spot that you'd already posted a reply 🙂