#13962 [Bgs]: Problem with Environment Variables

ID: 13962 Updated by: thetaphi@php.net Reported By: wburnett at cyberenv dot net Status: Bogus Bug Type: iPlanet related Operating System: Solaris 8 PHP Version: 4.0.6 New Comment: Additionally: why do you see CGI-like variables from the admin server? Answer: This is because you started the webserver process from the admin server which runs the startup script of the webserver you wanted to start as a cgi script (a cgi script inside of the admin server!!!). This is why the environment of the started webserver has some CGI environment variables in it, because it got started by a CGI. You can test this by starting the webserver not from the administration server. Use the unix command line as root and start it manually - you will see there are no CGI-like environment variables. In multithreaded webservers the only possibility to get the CGI variables ist by using $_SERVER[]. Please change your scripts to use that. $_ENV[]/getenv() is useless! Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-09-02 10:28:32] thetaphi@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php This behavior is exspected, because iPlanet is a multithreaded webserver. You cannot use the environment to get CGI variables. Use $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] etc.! $_ENV['HTTP_HOST']/getenv('HTTP_HOST') will get the environment of the webserver process. That's correct. If you want to use register_globals on try setting the correct variable order to get the server variables first! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-09-02 08:42:22] sniper@php.net These variables are set to whatever iPlanet tells they are. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-09-01 23:26:02] sorry at nospam dot org i have a similar problem w/ sun one iplanet 6 sp5 the http_host variable has the iplanet's admin port strung to it. i think this is one reason phpmyadmin isn't working for me... i'm on solaris 9 ad using php 4.3.3 w/ phpmyadmin 2.5.2 pl1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-16 01:00:08] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net No feedback was provided for this bug for over 2 weeks, so it is being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the information that was originally requested, please do so and change the status of the bug back to "Open". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-09-30 20:47:04] iliaa@php.net Please try using this CVS snapshot: http://snaps.php.net/php4-latest.tar.gz For Windows: http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-latest.zip ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/13962 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=13962&edit=1