Question

Here’s the basic information:
I’m using WAMP on Windows 8 64 bit. Apache 2.4.2, PHP 5.4+.

My project files are located in http://localhost/test/.
The .htaccess file in this folder is:

RewriteEngine on

#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L,QSA]

If I enter a URL like http://localhost/test/some/cool/stuff/, it works fine

i.e. in PHP: $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] = index.php&some/cool/stuff/
I wish it stripped the index.php& as well but I’m doing that in PHP.

While if I enter a URL like http://localhost/test/some/cool/stuff
the PHP $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] returns index.php&some/cool/stuff/&some/cool/stuff

Where’s this &some/cool/stuff/ part coming from?

Answer 1

I use RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php [L]
And then get the URL by $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

I use this function for PHP to get the request URL with fallback.

private static function get_request_URL() {
    if (isset($_SERVER["REDIRECT_URL"])) {
        $realURL = $_SERVER["REDIRECT_URL"];
    } elseif (isset($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"])) {
        list($realURL) = explode("?", $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);
    } else {
        return null;
    }
    $realURL = rtrim(trim(strtolower($realURL)), "/");
    if ($realURL == "") {
        $realURL = "/";
    }
    return $realURL;
}