http://www.aviblock.com/blog My musings on web development Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:40:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.aviblock.com/blog/2009/08/07/fixing-path_info-on-bluehost-and-other-shared-hosts/ http://www.aviblock.com/blog/2009/08/07/fixing-path_info-on-bluehost-and-other-shared-hosts/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:54:43 +0000 Avi http://www.aviblock.com/blog/?p=66 The first time I setup an Expression Engine site on bluehost, and removed the index.php file via the .htaccess file, I ran into a problem where every template was redirecting back to the main index template. At the time, I traced this down to fact that the “segments” were not getting populated properly.
A brief search led to the EE wiki, which advocated swapping out PATH_INFO for ORIG_PATH_INFO. Although not being a fan of hacking core stuff, I was kind of cornered into this, so I went for it. This has been my running solution for the past two years.
Recently, I ran into an issue where the $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] was not returning anything after the file name. In other words, for http://mysite/foo.php/bar, PHP_SELF should be equal to foo.php/bar.
I spoke with my host about it (a similar host to bluehost), and they said to put the following in the php.ini file: cgi.fix_pathinfo=Off
After, I did this, PHP_SELF worked fine. Unfortunately, I ran into a similar situation like I described at the outset. Then it hit me…I changed ORIG_PATH_INFO back to PATH_INFO and…it worked!
So now I listed this as another potential solution in the EE wiki.

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