I moved a WordPress installation to a new folder on a Windows/IIS server. I'm setting up 301 redirects in PHP, but it doesn't seem to be working. My post URLs have the following format:
http:://www.example.com/OLD_FOLDER/index.php/post-title/
I can't figure out how to grab the /post-title/ part of the URL.
$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] - which everyone seems to recommend - is returning an empty string. $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] is just returning index.php. Why is this, and how can I fix it?
Use the following line on the top of the PHP page where you're using $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']. This will resolve your issue.
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?' . $_SERVER['argv'][0];
In my apache server, this gives me the full URL in the exact format you are looking for:
$_SERVER["SCRIPT_URI"]
Everyone forgot http_build_url?
http_build_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
When no parameters are passed to http_build_url it will automatically assume the current URL. I would expect REQUEST_URI to be included as well, though it seems to be required in order to include the GET parameters.
The above example will return full URL.
I have used the following code, and I am getting the right result...
<?php
function currentPageURL() {
$curpageURL = 'http';
if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") {
$curpageURL.= "s";
}
$curpageURL.= "://";
if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") {
$curpageURL.= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
}
else {
$curpageURL.= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
}
return $curpageURL;
}
echo currentPageURL();
?>
The posttitle part of the URL is after your index.php file, which is a common way of providing friendly URLs without using mod_rewrite. The posttitle is actually therefore part of the query string, so you should be able to get it using $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] doesn't work on IIS, but I did find this: http://neosmart.net/blog/2006/100-apache-compliant-request_uri-for-iis-and-windows/ which sounds promising.
Everyone forgot http_build_url?
http_build_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
When no parameters are passed to http_build_url it will automatically assume the current URL. I would expect REQUEST_URI to be included as well, though it seems to be required in order to include the GET parameters.
The above example will return full URL.
The posttitle part of the URL is after your index.php file, which is a common way of providing friendly URLs without using mod_rewrite. The posttitle is actually therefore part of the query string, so you should be able to get it using $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']
Use this class to get the URL works.
class VirtualDirectory
{
var $protocol;
var $site;
var $thisfile;
var $real_directories;
var $num_of_real_directories;
var $virtual_directories = array();
var $num_of_virtual_directories = array();
var $baseURL;
var $thisURL;
function VirtualDirectory()
{
$this->protocol = $_SERVER['HTTPS'] == 'on' ? 'https' : 'http';
$this->site = $this->protocol . '://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$this->thisfile = basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']);
$this->real_directories = $this->cleanUp(explode("/", str_replace($this->thisfile, "", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])));
$this->num_of_real_directories = count($this->real_directories);
$this->virtual_directories = array_diff($this->cleanUp(explode("/", str_replace($this->thisfile, "", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']))),$this->real_directories);
$this->num_of_virtual_directories = count($this->virtual_directories);
$this->baseURL = $this->site . "/" . implode("/", $this->real_directories) . "/";
$this->thisURL = $this->baseURL . implode("/", $this->virtual_directories) . "/";
}
function cleanUp($array)
{
$cleaned_array = array();
foreach($array as $key => $value)
{
$qpos = strpos($value, "?");
if($qpos !== false)
{
break;
}
if($key != "" && $value != "")
{
$cleaned_array[] = $value;
}
}
return $cleaned_array;
}
}
$virdir = new VirtualDirectory();
echo $virdir->thisURL;
The posttitle part of the URL is after your index.php file, which is a common way of providing friendly URLs without using mod_rewrite. The posttitle is actually therefore part of the query string, so you should be able to get it using $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']
$pageURL = (@$_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") ? "https://" : "http://";
if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80")
{
$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
}
else
{
$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
}
return $pageURL;
Add:
function my_url(){
$url = (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) ?
"https://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] :
"http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
echo $url;
}
Then just call the my_url function.
The posttitle part of the URL is after your index.php file, which is a common way of providing friendly URLs without using mod_rewrite. The posttitle is actually therefore part of the query string, so you should be able to get it using $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']
REQUEST_URI is set by Apache, so you won't get it with IIS. Try doing a var_dump or print_r on $_SERVER and see what values exist there that you can use.
In my apache server, this gives me the full URL in the exact format you are looking for:
$_SERVER["SCRIPT_URI"]
Something a little more robust. Note It'll only work on 5.3 or greater.
/*
* Compatibility with multiple host headers.
* Support of "Reverse Proxy" configurations.
*
* Michael Jett <[email protected]>
*/
function base_url() {
$protocol = @$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO']
?: @$_SERVER['REQUEST_SCHEME']
?: ((isset($_SERVER["HTTPS"]) && $_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") ? "https" : "http");
$port = @intval($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PORT'])
?: @intval($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"])
?: (($protocol === 'https') ? 443 : 80);
$host = @explode(":", $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])[0]
?: @$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']
?: @$_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'];
// Don't include port if it's 80 or 443 and the protocol matches
$port = ($protocol === 'https' && $port === 443) || ($protocol === 'http' && $port === 80) ? '' : ':' . $port;
return sprintf('%s://%s%s/%s', $protocol, $host, $port, @trim(reset(explode("?", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])), '/'));
}
Use this class to get the URL works.
class VirtualDirectory
{
var $protocol;
var $site;
var $thisfile;
var $real_directories;
var $num_of_real_directories;
var $virtual_directories = array();
var $num_of_virtual_directories = array();
var $baseURL;
var $thisURL;
function VirtualDirectory()
{
$this->protocol = $_SERVER['HTTPS'] == 'on' ? 'https' : 'http';
$this->site = $this->protocol . '://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$this->thisfile = basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']);
$this->real_directories = $this->cleanUp(explode("/", str_replace($this->thisfile, "", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])));
$this->num_of_real_directories = count($this->real_directories);
$this->virtual_directories = array_diff($this->cleanUp(explode("/", str_replace($this->thisfile, "", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']))),$this->real_directories);
$this->num_of_virtual_directories = count($this->virtual_directories);
$this->baseURL = $this->site . "/" . implode("/", $this->real_directories) . "/";
$this->thisURL = $this->baseURL . implode("/", $this->virtual_directories) . "/";
}
function cleanUp($array)
{
$cleaned_array = array();
foreach($array as $key => $value)
{
$qpos = strpos($value, "?");
if($qpos !== false)
{
break;
}
if($key != "" && $value != "")
{
$cleaned_array[] = $value;
}
}
return $cleaned_array;
}
}
$virdir = new VirtualDirectory();
echo $virdir->thisURL;
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] doesn't work on IIS, but I did find this: http://neosmart.net/blog/2006/100-apache-compliant-request_uri-for-iis-and-windows/ which sounds promising.
Oh, the fun of a snippet!
if (!function_exists('base_url')) {
function base_url($atRoot=FALSE, $atCore=FALSE, $parse=FALSE){
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) {
$http = isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && strtolower($_SERVER['HTTPS']) !== 'off' ? 'https' : 'http';
$hostname = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$dir = str_replace(basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']), '', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);
$core = preg_split('@/@', str_replace($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], '', realpath(dirname(__FILE__))), NULL, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
$core = $core[0];
$tmplt = $atRoot ? ($atCore ? "%s://%s/%s/" : "%s://%s/") : ($atCore ? "%s://%s/%s/" : "%s://%s%s");
$end = $atRoot ? ($atCore ? $core : $hostname) : ($atCore ? $core : $dir);
$base_url = sprintf( $tmplt, $http, $hostname, $end );
}
else $base_url = 'http://localhost/';
if ($parse) {
$base_url = parse_url($base_url);
if (isset($base_url['path'])) if ($base_url['path'] == '/') $base_url['path'] = '';
}
return $base_url;
}
}
It has beautiful returns like:
// A URL like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/189113/how-do-i-get-current-page-full-url-in-php-on-a-windows-iis-server:
echo base_url(); // Will produce something like: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/189113/
echo base_url(TRUE); // Will produce something like: http://stackoverflow.com/
echo base_url(TRUE, TRUE); || echo base_url(NULL, TRUE); //Will produce something like: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/
// And finally:
echo base_url(NULL, NULL, TRUE);
// Will produce something like:
// array(3) {
// ["scheme"]=>
// string(4) "http"
// ["host"]=>
// string(12) "stackoverflow.com"
// ["path"]=>
// string(35) "/questions/189113/"
// }
'http'.(empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])?'':'s').'://'.$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
You can also use HTTP_HOST instead of SERVER_NAME as Herman commented. See this related question for a full discussion. In short, you are probably OK with using either. Here is the 'host' version:
'http'.(empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])?'':'s').'://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
Typically, I set ServerName in the VirtualHost because I want that to be the canonical form of the website. The $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] is set based on the request headers. If the server responds to any/all domain names at that IP address, a user could spoof the header, or worse, someone could point a DNS record to your IP address, and then your server / website would be serving out a website with dynamic links built on an incorrect URL. If you use the latter method you should also configure your vhost or set up an .htaccess rule to enforce the domain you want to serve out, something like:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !(^stackoverflow.com*)$
RewriteRule (.*) https://stackoverflow.com/$1 [R=301,L]
#sometimes u may need to omit this slash ^ depending on your server
Hope that helps. The real point of this answer was just to provide the first line of code for those people who ended up here when searching for a way to get the complete URL with apache :)
REQUEST_URI is set by Apache, so you won't get it with IIS. Try doing a var_dump or print_r on $_SERVER and see what values exist there that you can use.
Something a little more robust. Note It'll only work on 5.3 or greater.
/*
* Compatibility with multiple host headers.
* Support of "Reverse Proxy" configurations.
*
* Michael Jett <[email protected]>
*/
function base_url() {
$protocol = @$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO']
?: @$_SERVER['REQUEST_SCHEME']
?: ((isset($_SERVER["HTTPS"]) && $_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") ? "https" : "http");
$port = @intval($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PORT'])
?: @intval($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"])
?: (($protocol === 'https') ? 443 : 80);
$host = @explode(":", $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])[0]
?: @$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']
?: @$_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'];
// Don't include port if it's 80 or 443 and the protocol matches
$port = ($protocol === 'https' && $port === 443) || ($protocol === 'http' && $port === 80) ? '' : ':' . $port;
return sprintf('%s://%s%s/%s', $protocol, $host, $port, @trim(reset(explode("?", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])), '/'));
}
'http'.(empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])?'':'s').'://'.$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
You can also use HTTP_HOST instead of SERVER_NAME as Herman commented. See this related question for a full discussion. In short, you are probably OK with using either. Here is the 'host' version:
'http'.(empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])?'':'s').'://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
Typically, I set ServerName in the VirtualHost because I want that to be the canonical form of the website. The $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] is set based on the request headers. If the server responds to any/all domain names at that IP address, a user could spoof the header, or worse, someone could point a DNS record to your IP address, and then your server / website would be serving out a website with dynamic links built on an incorrect URL. If you use the latter method you should also configure your vhost or set up an .htaccess rule to enforce the domain you want to serve out, something like:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !(^stackoverflow.com*)$
RewriteRule (.*) https://stackoverflow.com/$1 [R=301,L]
#sometimes u may need to omit this slash ^ depending on your server
Hope that helps. The real point of this answer was just to provide the first line of code for those people who ended up here when searching for a way to get the complete URL with apache :)
$pageURL = (@$_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") ? "https://" : "http://";
if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80")
{
$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
}
else
{
$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
}
return $pageURL;
I use the following function to get the current, full URL. This should work on IIS and Apache.
function get_current_url() {
$protocol = 'http';
if ($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] == 443 || (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] == 'on')) {
$protocol .= 's';
$protocol_port = $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'];
} else {
$protocol_port = 80;
}
$host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$port = $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'];
$request = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
$query = isset($_SERVER['argv']) ? substr($_SERVER['argv'][0], strpos($_SERVER['argv'][0], ';') + 1) : '';
$toret = $protocol . '://' . $host . ($port == $protocol_port ? '' : ':' . $port) . $request . (empty($query) ? '' : '?' . $query);
return $toret;
}
Add:
function my_url(){
$url = (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) ?
"https://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] :
"http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
echo $url;
}
Then just call the my_url function.
I have used the following code, and I am getting the right result...
<?php
function currentPageURL() {
$curpageURL = 'http';
if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") {
$curpageURL.= "s";
}
$curpageURL.= "://";
if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") {
$curpageURL.= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
}
else {
$curpageURL.= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
}
return $curpageURL;
}
echo currentPageURL();
?>
I use the following function to get the current, full URL. This should work on IIS and Apache.
function get_current_url() {
$protocol = 'http';
if ($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] == 443 || (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] == 'on')) {
$protocol .= 's';
$protocol_port = $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'];
} else {
$protocol_port = 80;
}
$host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$port = $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'];
$request = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
$query = isset($_SERVER['argv']) ? substr($_SERVER['argv'][0], strpos($_SERVER['argv'][0], ';') + 1) : '';
$toret = $protocol . '://' . $host . ($port == $protocol_port ? '' : ':' . $port) . $request . (empty($query) ? '' : '?' . $query);
return $toret;
}
Use the following line on the top of the PHP page where you're using $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']. This will resolve your issue.
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?' . $_SERVER['argv'][0];
Oh, the fun of a snippet!
if (!function_exists('base_url')) {
function base_url($atRoot=FALSE, $atCore=FALSE, $parse=FALSE){
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) {
$http = isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && strtolower($_SERVER['HTTPS']) !== 'off' ? 'https' : 'http';
$hostname = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$dir = str_replace(basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']), '', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);
$core = preg_split('@/@', str_replace($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], '', realpath(dirname(__FILE__))), NULL, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
$core = $core[0];
$tmplt = $atRoot ? ($atCore ? "%s://%s/%s/" : "%s://%s/") : ($atCore ? "%s://%s/%s/" : "%s://%s%s");
$end = $atRoot ? ($atCore ? $core : $hostname) : ($atCore ? $core : $dir);
$base_url = sprintf( $tmplt, $http, $hostname, $end );
}
else $base_url = 'http://localhost/';
if ($parse) {
$base_url = parse_url($base_url);
if (isset($base_url['path'])) if ($base_url['path'] == '/') $base_url['path'] = '';
}
return $base_url;
}
}
It has beautiful returns like:
// A URL like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/189113/how-do-i-get-current-page-full-url-in-php-on-a-windows-iis-server:
echo base_url(); // Will produce something like: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/189113/
echo base_url(TRUE); // Will produce something like: http://stackoverflow.com/
echo base_url(TRUE, TRUE); || echo base_url(NULL, TRUE); //Will produce something like: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/
// And finally:
echo base_url(NULL, NULL, TRUE);
// Will produce something like:
// array(3) {
// ["scheme"]=>
// string(4) "http"
// ["host"]=>
// string(12) "stackoverflow.com"
// ["path"]=>
// string(35) "/questions/189113/"
// }
Source: Stackoverflow.com