Re: Does HTACCESS block $_POST ?

On 4/20/25 23:27, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Ive got an odd problem with my php (seems a recent issue)...
>
> Heres my htaccess:
>
> Options +FollowSymLinks
> RewriteEngine On
>
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ vyb6a.php   [QSA,L]
>
> for the last few days, i'm no longer receiving ANY $_POST values...
>
> ive even got $r=print_r($_POST,true); echo $r;  at the beginning of my
> script before anything else & nothing comes through. so i do think is
> an htaccess issue.
>
> Does anyone have an idea how to solve ? (im using clean URLs)
>
> Ps the script works fine - apart from receiving $_POST values
>
>

Hi, I think my code has posted variables through rewrites all the time. 
I've never considered that it wouldn't work.

I went through a troubleshooting process in my mind (a dark and 
dangerous place) and came up with this.

As  a test, you might take out the htaccess and post to the page 
directly (unclean URLs) and see if the POST variables come through.

Is the posted data present in $_REQUEST?

Does your php.ini or other source of settings have 
enable_post_data_reading set on?  I didn't even know that this setting 
existed until I went searching this morning.

Is your php_max_size variable set in such a way to interfere with the 
posted variables?

Perhaps you should try another script with just the first line (the 
print_r) statement and see if you can post to that, with and without a 
rewrite.

Does your page contain a class? If so, is your print_r accidentally 
inside the class? (I got this from a 12 year old stack overflow post)

Let us know how your troubleshooting is going. Hopefully some others 
will chime in.


Ed Greenberg