Forum Subject: Anyone get url_rewrite to work with php running as php-cgi?

Posted on: 06/22/04 11:37am
By: Turias

For security reasons, my server requires php to be run as php-cgi. I accomplish this by placing

AddType php-cgi php

into my .htaccess file. When I don't do this, many parts of Geeklog do not function correctly, such as anything requiring use of the exec() command, among others.

Up until now, this hasn't been a problem.

I would like to be able to use url-rewrite, but whenever I activate it in the config.php file, I get the following error when trying to load a rewritten URL:

No input file specified.

Removing the .htaccess line fixes this, but introduces many other, unacceptable problems.

Has anyone gotten url_rewrite to work on their server when not using php as an apache module?

Anyone get url_rewrite to work with php running as php-cgi?

Posted on: 06/22/04 03:26pm
By: Dirk

My hosting service is running PHP as a CGI - and url_rewriting works just fine there.

I'll send you a link to the phpinfo() output ...

bye, Dirk

Anyone get url_rewrite to work with php running as php-cgi?

Posted on: 06/22/04 05:26pm
By: Turias

Thanks, Dirk. It turns out my host (Dreamhost) hasn't set a flag in their php.ini needed to fix this problem with php-cgi, apache, and mod_rewrite. I was able to get most of the details from the following thread I found from Google:

http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20040426/158445.html[*1]


So, it seems that I have two options:

1) Compile php myself and run it from my user directory
2) Get Dreamhost to fix it in their php.ini file.

Thanks again.

Re: Anyone get url_rewrite to work with php running as php-cgi?

Posted on: 05/30/15 07:15pm
By: ragortue

Sorry to bump this up but is this still the case recently?