Re: PHP bug ...
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP bug ... | ||
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> ... well, maybe a bug.
>
> (originally sent to Rasmus, but I suspect he's out of town still, so...)
>
> I was just looking through the log files for one of our sites,
> and noticed that the remote user (i.e. "%u" in the Apache access
> logs) wasn't being logged.
>
> I think this is because I'm using PHP to do HTTP authentication,
> and Apache is looking for the REMOTE_USER environment variable,
> which PHP doesn't seem to set.
>
> Further, PHP_AUTH_USER isn't set as an environment variable either,
> so I can't change my logs to something like:
>
> \"%{PHP_AUTH_USER}i\"
>
> or
> \"%{PHP_AUTH_USER}e\"
>
>
> So ... am I out of luck if I use PHP authentication?
Not really a bug, and it has been reported a few times. Just a lacking
feature.
-Rasmus