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7 years ago

I had problems running php as CGI in thttpd. I have followed instructions posted by db at digitalmediacreation dot ch, but I was still getting "500 Internal Error" answer from the server. However, I had no problems running php as CLI using a simple wrapper file named index.cgi:

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
  require_once 'index.php';
?>

but i needed to pass user data through GET and POST, and this method couldn't handle it. I have spent 2 hours figuring out how to run the CGI mode properly, until I finally gave up, and done it in "manual" way. I have just added some code to the wrapper that reads GET and POST data into the proper variables:

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php

  //parse the command line into the $_GET variable
  parse_str($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], $_GET);
  
  //parse the standard input into the $_POST variable
  if (($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === 'POST')
   && ($_SERVER['CONTENT_LENGTH'] > 0))
  {
    parse_str(fread(STDIN, $_SERVER['CONTENT_LENGTH']), $_POST);
  }

  require_once 'index.php';
?>

It works well for me. It may be useful if someone else have similar problem.
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