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Bug #75647 `-t dir` changed behavior when combined with a router file
Submitted: 2017-12-07 15:09 UTC Modified: 2017-12-07 15:36 UTC
From: martin dot st at wolke7 dot net Assigned:
Status: Duplicate Package: Built-in web server
PHP Version: 7.1.12 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2017-12-07 15:09 UTC] martin dot st at wolke7 dot net 
Description:
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This is my first bug report to PHP, so please don't be mad at me. 

The following command used to work fine but stopped working in PHP 7.1.12
`php -S localhost:8000 -t directory directory/router.php`

It seems like somebody changed the way relative paths are handled when using the `-t` option and a router file at the same time. 

This statement also shows how this was working 3 months ago:
http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php#121501

I think it might be related to the following commit, but I'm not very sure (I'm not a C developer):
http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=816758eda2bcdd69ba505fb6bbb79124a7bf2254


What actually happens
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Starting the server works nicely:

$ php -S localhost:8000 -t directory directory/router.php
PHP 7.1.12 Development Server started at Thu Dec  7 15:00:15 2017
Listening on http://localhost:8000
Document root is [/home/myuser/mycode/directory]
Press Ctrl-C to quit.

When a request comes in, I get a message like the following (both in the result and in the server output):
[Thu Dec  7 15:00:21 2017] PHP Warning:  Unknown: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
[Thu Dec  7 15:00:21 2017] PHP Fatal error:  Unknown: Failed opening required '/home/myuser/mycode/directory/directory/router.php' (include_path='.:/home/rof/.phpenv/versions/7.1.12/lib/php/pear') in Unknown on line 0

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 [2017-12-07 15:22 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Duplicate
 [2017-12-07 15:22 UTC] requinix@php.net 
That is indeed the right commit.

However it's more or less an intentional change: the router script is now relative to the document root and not the current directory. An absolute path will work too, of course. See bug #75604.

$ php -S localhost:8000 -t directory router.php
$ php -S localhost:8000 -t directory `pwd`/directory/router.php
 [2017-12-07 15:26 UTC] requinix@php.net 
No, not "more or less". It is intentional and the commit clearly shows it as such.
 [2017-12-07 15:36 UTC] nikic@php.net 
@requinix: The commit shows that this was an unintended side-effect of another fix. It should be reverted, because it's an unnecessary BC break for a case where the new behavior doesn't even make sense. Paths provided on the CLI should be interpreted relative to the CLI CWD...
 
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