PHP location-bar variables don't work with personal web sharing

FattyMembrane

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

• Jul 14, 2004

• #1

i just enabled PHP on my installation of 10.3 and although it works, it will not process variables passed in the location bar. for example, if my site index.php has a link to href="index.php?option=2"

Code:

mycomp.local/index.php?option=2

refreshes, but the page stays exactly the same, option=2 is not processed. if i upload the files to my webserver, everything works fine. as you can imagine, this is crippling my sites, and makes my built-in webserver pretty close to useless. any help would be appreciated.

 

Knox

Administrator

Staff member

• Jul 15, 2004

• #2

One thing to check is whether you are using global variables, or using the $_GET array to access the variables. The default appears to be that register_globals is off on OS X, whereas your webserver admin may have switched them back on for compatibility.

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

 

sonofslim

macrumors 6502a

• Jul 15, 2004

• #3

Knox is right. try running the following script from both your local server and your live server:

PHP:

<? phpinfo(); ?>

you should see a line in the output that looks like the screen-grab i've attached. if your local server says "Off" and your live server says "On," then there's your problem. register_globals Off, by the way, is the recommended way to run your scripts.

 

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msharp

macrumors regular

• Jul 15, 2004

• #4

sonofslim said:

Knox is right. try running the following script from both your local server and your live server:

PHP:

<? phpinfo(); ?>

you should see a line in the output that looks like the screen-grab i've attached. if your local server says "Off" and your live server says "On," then there's your problem. register_globals Off, by the way, is the recommended way to run your scripts.

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yeah, turn the Register Global Variables to "On" rather than "Off" by default in the php.ini

 

sonofslim

macrumors 6502a

• Jul 15, 2004

• #5

msharp said:

yeah, turn the Register Global Variables to "On" rather than "Off" by default in the php.ini

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if you want to mirror your live server's behavior exactly, that is. for discussion on why you might want to leave it off, see the following threads. in a nutshell, writing your scripts under the assumption that register_globals is off is more secure. plus they'll work exactly the same as if register_globals is on, so there's no reason not to.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/63196/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/50823/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/61406/

 

FattyMembrane

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

• Jul 17, 2004

• #6

thanks for all of the responses. changing the line in my php.ini file worked like a charm.