Form variables not passing: globals IS on

Sorry, posted with the wrong address, here it is again: I have RH 7.3 with "everything" install, and I didn't make ANY changes to the default php.ini, and have checked it and register_global = On Now, when I make a simple form and action page combo, the variables are not passed: You can see from this example that I use to test that I use all methods possible to check where the values are, but all return blank... index.php <form action="page2.php" method="POST" > <input type="text" name="test"><input type="submit" name="submit"> </form> page2.php <?php echo " HTTP_POST_VARS :".$_HTTP_POST_VARS["test"]."<br>"; echo " POST_VARS: ".$_POST["test"]."<br>"; echo " normal test :".$test."<br>"; ?> What could cause this?