$_GET empty with Apache and content negotiation

[dalyian39@gmail.com]

Hello,

I'm pretty new to PHP but I have a page, B.php, which runs fine, but I
want to be able to call this as B (long story), i.e.
http://mysite/B?foo=bar should be equivalent to calling
http://mysite/B.php?foo=bar.

I've tried creating a symlink on the filesystem B -> B.php but that
just sends the text content of the B.php file itself back to the
caller. (I kind of thought I'd get away with that =) )

My config is Red Hat 9.0 with the included Apache 2.0.40. PHP seems to
built in to the core instead of as a module because it just works and
there's no included module in httpd.conf.

What I've done now is to try the type-map approach from the docs at
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/con...gotiation.html and added a
file called B.var with contents

URI: B

URI: B.php
Content-type: application/php

Now the call to http://mysite/B?foo=bar works, and the PHP executes,
but the variable $_GET is empty whereas it is not when I execute
http://mysite/B.php?foo=bar.

Undoubtedly it's something to do with mime types or something.

Any thoughts, or suggestions?

Thanks
Ian

[Colin McKinnon]

Re: $_GET empty with Apache and content negotiation

dalyian39@gmail .com wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I'm pretty new to PHP but I have a page, B.php, which runs fine, but I
> want to be able to call this as B (long story), i.e.
> http://mysite/B?foo=bar should be equivalent to calling
> http://mysite/B.php?foo=bar.
>
> I've tried creating a symlink on the filesystem B -> B.php but that[/color]
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> What I've done now is to try the type-map approach from the docs at[/color]
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>
> Any thoughts, or suggestions?[/color]

I'd start again using mod_rewrite.

C.

[dalyian39@gmail.com]

Re: $_GET empty with Apache and content negotiation

You're right - I compiled Apache (with mod_rewrite) and PHP from source
and used

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^B?$ /B.php

in .htaccess. Works great. Incidentally there's a bug which convinced
me that using MultiViews was almost pointless -
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=28023.

Ian

[John Dunlop]

Re: $_GET empty with Apache and content negotiation

dalyian39 wrote:
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> I'm pretty new to PHP but I have a page, B.php, which runs fine, but I
> want to be able to call this as B (long story),[/color]

you're right, it is a long story, but it's not yours alone.

I don't see why you would put .php in your URLs anyway.
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> i.e.
> http://mysite/B?foo=bar should be equivalent to calling
> http://mysite/B.php?foo=bar.[/color]

I would stick with your content negotiation, even if you have only one
representation at the moment, but switch to MultiViews instead.

--
Jock