Bug #75061 [NEW]: Built-in web server does not look up parent dirs for index files

From: me at alex dot bio Operating system: Mac OS X 10.12.6 PHP version: 7.1.8 Package: Built-in web server Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Built-in web server does not look up parent dirs for index files Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/features.commandline.webserver --- Documentation states that: `If a URI request does not specify a file, then either index.php or index.html in the given directory are returned. *****If neither file exists, the lookup for index.php and index.html will be continued in the parent directory***** and so on until one is found or the document root has been reached.` In reality index files from parent directories are not loaded and 404 Not Found error is returned. Looks like the bug is here: https://github.com/php/php-src/blame/master/sapi/cli/php_cli_server.c#L1400 Code returns instead of trying the parent index.[php|html]. Test script: --------------- Local directory structure: D www/ F www/index.php D www/subdir/ Built-in web server is launched like this: php -S localhost:8888 -t www Opening http://localhost:8888/dir/ in the browser fails with 404 error and the root index.php is not loaded. Expected result: ---------------- Documentation states that built-in server should open index.[php|html] in the parent root folder "If a URI request does not specify a file". The expected result is that the root folder's index.php should be loaded instead of 404 error. Actual result: -------------- opening http://localhost:8888/dir/ fails with 404 error and the root index.php is not loaded. opening http://localhost:8888/dir also fails with 404 error and the root index.php is not loaded. opening http://localhost:8888/notexistingdir works and correctly loads www/index.php. -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=75061&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75061&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75061&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75061&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75061&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75061&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75061&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75061&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75061&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75061&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75061&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75061&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75061&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75061&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75061&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75061&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75061&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75061&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75061&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75061&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75061&r=mysqlcfg