locally works/remotely breaks? (Oracle related?)

[melih.onvural@gmail.com]

Group,

I'm diving into this crazy PHP thing, and I find myself a bit stuck.
Locally I can get a site to work very well. However, whenever I ask a
buddy of mine to test the site and I give him my IP it doesn't work.

I have a form. The form checks username/password against a database and
then either sends you back to the form or forwards you to the next
page. Is:

header("Locatio n: http://localhost/nextpage.php");

the proper form of redirection?

The issue on the not at my computer logins is in this redirect. I'm not
sure what I need to send, but I was getting connection errors in the
beginning which aren't showing up anymore. Then I was getting
unreferenced index errors, but I put all the variables in a session and
that seems to work now. And now I'm stumped because I'm not getting
errors in the log.

Thanks for any help in advance,

Melih Onvural

[Daniel Tryba]

Re: locally works/remotely breaks? (Oracle related?)

melih.onvural@g mail.com wrote:
[extrenal request redirects to:][color=blue]
> header("Locatio n: http://localhost/nextpage.php");
>
> the proper form of redirection?[/color]

Well, Duh! localhost is the machine where the browser is running on.
Your friend connects to http://example.com/page.php and gets a redirect
to _his_ machine at http://localhost/nextpage.php.

The Q&D hack is to redirect to 'Location: nextpage.php', it violates the
HTTP rfc but in practice I have yet to see a browser that doesn't
redirect to the correct URL with this.

Better would be to redirect to "Location: http://{$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}/nextpage.php"

[melih.onvural@gmail.com]

Re: locally works/remotely breaks? (Oracle related?)

As a follow up, I'm getting that:

$uid=$_POST['username'];
$pwd=$_POST['pwd'];

those lines are invalid indexes. I'm worried that the value isn't
carrying over. I have an index.html page which has a form that posts
and then a connection.php page that mines the data and makes a decision
to go forward or go back. Should I turn something on so that my POST
variables carry over?

[Oli Filth]

Re: locally works/remotely breaks? (Oracle related?)

melih.onvural@g mail.com said the following on 01/07/2005 14:34:[color=blue]
> As a follow up, I'm getting that:
>
> $uid=$_POST['username'];
> $pwd=$_POST['pwd'];
>
> those lines are invalid indexes. I'm worried that the value isn't
> carrying over. I have an index.html page which has a form that posts
> and then a connection.php page that mines the data and makes a decision
> to go forward or go back. Should I turn something on so that my POST
> variables carry over?
>[/color]

Carry over to where?

Without seeing a (minimal) example of the HTML and PHP that you're
using, it's difficult to tell what's going on.

--
Oli

[saint exupery]

Re: locally works/remotely breaks? (Oracle related?)

don't worry dude. it's just the error reporting config.

change the error_reporting value to E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE in
php.ini and restart your webserver :)