PHP - .htaccess issue $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] is empty

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On local host I was running my php (MVC) application with following rules in my .htaccess file:

Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond $1 !^(config|core|css|js|fonts|images|robots\.txt)

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php/$1 [L]

E.g. localhost/myapp/register/login will load the log in page. But on a live server I'm having issues. The first problem I've faced was No input file specified. Reading this answer I changed this line RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php/$1 [L] to RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]. This solved the first problem but created another problem and now it's always loading the same/default view and controller no matter what the url is.

In my index.php has the following lines of code:

$url = isset($_SERVER['PATH_INFO']) ? explode('/', ltrim($_SERVER['PATH_INFO'], '/')) : [];
 // Route the request
 Router::route($url);

So, I checked the $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] value and it's empty. Now my question is why it's empty and how can i achieve the normal behavior of the urls.

“Now my question is why it's empty” - because you changed the URL, from one that had a path info component, to one that doesn’t. Path info is the trailing part of the URL path component, that comes after the file name that could by matched to a physically existing file. But you removed that portion from the URL path, and put it into the query string instead. — C3roe
– C3roe, Commented Sep 2, 2020 at 7:03

Bipul Roy · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-01 15:13:43Z

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So I found a solution here. I have changed my index.php as following:

$url = isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) ? explode('/', ltrim($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/')) : [];
 // Route the request
 Router::route($url);

... and now it's working as expected :) .

answered Sep 1, 2020 at 15:13

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Aaron Meese · Accepted Answer · 2023-06-17 10:51:11Z

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It's so simple when we/I can use Laravel because it comes with .htaccess file automatically in a folder, apart of using Laravel you can use cPanel.

The .htaccess file should contain the following rules:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php/$1 [L]

edited Jun 17, 2023 at 10:51

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answered Jun 13, 2023 at 13:02

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