[mythtv-commits] Ticket #1285: Using php as CGI causes apache to prepend "REDIRECT_" to environment variables, disabling mythweb

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#1285: Using php as CGI causes apache to prepend "REDIRECT_" to environment
variables, disabling mythweb
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 Reporter:  saintdev at gmail.com  |       Owner:  xris
     Type:  defect              |      Status:  new 
 Priority:  minor               |   Milestone:      
Component:  mythweb             |     Version:      
 Severity:  medium              |  
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 If you're using PHP as a CGI with Apache, you will end up with "REDIRECT_"
 prepended to you environment variables. This causes the environment
 variables that mythweb uses for mysql login to become invalid:

 _SERVER["db_server"] is automatically converted into
 _SERVER["REDIRECT_db_server"] by Apache.

 _SERVER["db_name"] --->  _SERVER["REDIRECT_db_name"]
 _SERVER["db_login"] --->  _SERVER["REDIRECT_db_login"]
 _SERVER["db_password"] --->  _SERVER["REDIRECT_db_password"]

 This is because of the way Apache handles redirects, and it sees the php-
 cgi as a redirect, so it renames the environment variables.

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Ticket URL: <http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/1285>
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