note 35997 deleted from install.netscape-enterprise by thetaphi

Note Submitter: thetaphi@php.net ---- Because of some bogus bug reports I will explain some problems with CGI environment variables: a) iPlanet/SunONE/Netscape is a multithreaded web server. Because of that all requests are running in the same process space (the space of the webserver itsself) -> there is only one environment. If you want to get CGI variables like PATH_INFO, HTTP_HOST etc. it is not the correct way to try this in the old PHP 3.x way with getenv() or a similar way (register globals to environment, $_ENV). Because you would only get the environment of the running webserver WITHOUT valid CGI variables. b) Why are there (invalid) CGI variables in the environment? 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. What to do? Simply change your scripts to get CGI variables in the CORRECT way for PHP 4.x by using the superglobal $_SERVER: e.g. $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] If you have older scripts which use $HTTP_HOST,..., you should turn on register_globals in php.ini and change the variable order to (important: remove "E" from it, because you do not need the environment here): variables_order = "GPCS" register_globals = On