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Asked: 2026-05-28T00:36:53+00:00

I’m setting up a new web server, and there’s a slight problem. Whenever I

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I’m setting up a new web server, and there’s a slight problem.

Whenever I try to use a simple post form (ie):

<form method="POST" action="http://IP/comments.php">

<p><label>Email: </label>
<input type="text" name="login_email" />
</p>

<p>
<input type="submit" value="Login" />
</p>

</form>

The browser redirects to my remote address instead of comments.php. What is the problem here?

Comments.php:

<?php echo "This is an empty page"; ?>

Note that if the target is an html file, the form executes. So the problem appears to be sending post data to a PHP file

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your webserver returns error code 301 when POSTing to comments.php (see below). This is not a PHP problem, but probably a configuration error. You should check your virtual host configuration files or any .htaccess files that might reside in the directory in question.

    $ netcat 107.21.231.236 80      
POST /comments.php HTTP/1.1
Host: 107.21.231.236
Content-Length: 1

a
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:18:28 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.21 (Amazon)
Location: http://91.49.12.86/$
Content-Length: 228
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="http://91.49.12.86/$">here</a>.</p>
</body></html>
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