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Bug #24886 PATH_TRANSLATED is wrong
Submitted: 2003-07-31 11:05 UTC Modified: 2003-07-31 18:00 UTC
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Avg. Score:3.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
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From: lenar at city dot ee Assigned: iliaa (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Apache related
PHP Version: 4.3.3RC2 OS: debian/unstable
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-07-31 11:05 UTC] lenar at city dot ee 
Description:
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in apache configuration where many virtual hosts are in 
use, PATH_TRANSLATED doesn't always get set to correct 
path. 
 
Instead the value seems to reflect some other (older) 
request. Possibly the value is correct only if brand new 
apache child serves the request. 
 
The value in $_SERVER array is always correct. 
 
Current workaround: add extract($_SERVER, EXTR_OVERWRITE); 
to your auto-prepend php file.

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 [2003-07-31 13:23 UTC] sniper@php.net 
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 [2003-07-31 16:12 UTC] lenar at city dot ee 
Really it's hard to explain this. 
One thing is for sure: 
echo $_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED'] and echo $PATH_TRANSLATED 
give different outputs. 
 
register_globals is _on_. 
 
Actually after studying it seems that $PATH_TRANSLATED 
gets the same value that is in $_ENV['PATH_TRANSLATED'] 
which in turn seems to be DOCUMENT_ROOT but sometimes it 
is not the correct DOCUMENT_ROOT but document root of some 
other virtual host. 
 
But anyway it should be easily testable to some degree 
with this code: 
<? echo $PATH_TRANSLATED . "\n"; echo 
$_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED']; ?> 
 
I get: 
/var/www/ 
/home/user/public_html/index.php 
 
My variables_order = "EGPCS" 
 
So I would expect the value in $_SERVER to be accessible 
by $PATH_TRANSLATED not the one in $_ENV. 
 
Why the value in $_ENV sometimes contains the path of some 
other virtul host's document root is still beyond me. 
 
Apache is 1.3.27
 [2003-07-31 16:21 UTC] iliaa@php.net 
Note to self, maybe related to bug #24883.
 [2003-07-31 18:00 UTC] iliaa@php.net 
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