(Under Apache 1.3.6.)

There is a contradiction between the value PHP returns for PATH_TRANSLATED and the value displayed by phpinfo, e.g. in the following script (foo.php3):

  print "$PATH_INFO<BR>\n";
  print "$PATH_TRANSLATED<BR>\n";
  phpinfo();

I first noticed the problem when trying to get a script to act as a handler for files in a subdirectory (using a .htaccess file with AddHandler and Action directives), but the problem is more general.

PATH_INFO always seems to agree with phpinfo, and PATH_TRANSLATED always seems to be the full pathname of the actual PHP script, regardless of what phpinfo says.

For example, fetching "http://www/~greg/foo.php3" complains only that PATH_INFO is uninitialised, and says PATH_TRANSLATED=/home/greg/public_html/foo.php3, whereas phpinfo does not display either PATH_INFO or PATH_TRANSLATED in this case. Fetching "http://www/~greg/foo.php3/bar" agrees with phpinfo that PATH_INFO=/bar, but says PATH_TRANSLATED=/home/greg/public_html/foo.php3 (same as the first example), whereas phpinfo says PATH_TRANSLATED=/var/lib/htdocs/bar (definitely wrong).

This could be an Apache bug as well/instead, but phpinfo needs correcting if the Apache version of the variable is actually inaccessible to PHP...