Description:
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I am running nginx 1.0.4 with php-fpm and php 5.3.6.

It seems that PHP_SELF has strong dependency on the setting of SCRIPT_NAME.  
When setting SCRIPT_NAME to something, $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] will contain 
PHP_SELF environment value concatenated with environment value of SCRIPT_NAME.  
If SCRIPT_NAME is not set to anything, then $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] contains what 
is passed to the environment, however, since SCRIPT_NAME is not set, PHP scripts 
that rely on SCRIPT_NAME will not work. 


Example #1:

accessing URL:  /index.php/some/url

setting server variables:
SCRIPT_NAME /some/url
PHP_SELF /some/url

result:

print $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']; // outputs: "/some/url"  - OK
print $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; // outputs: "/some/url//some/url" - NOT OK!

Example #2:

SCRIPT_NAME (unset)
PHP_SELF /some/url

result:

print $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];  // outputs: ""
print $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; // outputs: "/some/url"

Example #3:

SCRIPT_NAME /some/url
PHP_SELF (unset)

result:

print $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];  // outputs: "/some/url"
print $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];  // outputs: ""
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Bottom line: if configured as demonstrated in the first example, scripts that 
rely on SCRIPT_NAME will work properly, but scripts that require PHP_SELF won't 
work, as it contains the invalid URL;  if configured as shown in the second 
example, scripts that rely on PHP_SELF work properly, but scripts that require 
SCRIPT_NAME, don't work at all;  lastly, if configured as in the third example, 
scripts that use SCRIPT_NAME will work properly, but scripts that use PHP_SELF 
won't work, as PHP_SELF is empty.


Any workaround for this issue?  

When using mod_php with apache, both SCRIPT_NAME and PHP_SELF can be set to the 
same value, and will be interpreted by PHP exactly like they are passed.  
However, in FCGI/PHP-FPM environment I cannot find a way to set them both to the 
same value! 

How is $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] being constructed?  
Why should it rely on SCRIPT_NAME at all?  
How to set server environment correctly, so it is the same under FastCGI and 
under mod_php / apache 2.2?

Andrejs

Test script:
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<?php

   print '<pre>';
   printf("SCRIPT_NAME: \"%s\"\n", $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);
   printf("PHP_SELF:    \"%s\"\n", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
   print '</pre>';
?>


Expected result:
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I'd thought PHP_SELF should be possible to define explicitly through the server 
environment, without other variables affecting it's value.  How come is it so that 
in the apache/mod_php mode both SCRIPT_NAME and PHP_SELF contain the same value?  
This does not seem to be possible in the FastCGI environment, at least when using 
php-fpm.