When migrating my box to the newest version of php, I noticed that friendly URL's are no longer working when I enabled them.

Looking through several sites and forum, i've found out that a setting in php.ini can fix this. BUT it appears that it is a bug in PHP that is being used by UBB, which should be.

The quick fix is to edit the php.ini of your site, and set:
cgi.fix_pathinfo=0
(disabling the original fix)

The comment in this settings tells it all:

; cgi.fix_pathinfo provides *real* PATH_INFO/PATH_TRANSLATED support for CGI. PHP's
; previous behaviour was to set PATH_TRANSLATED to SCRIPT_FILENAME, and to not grok
; what PATH_INFO is. For more information on PATH_INFO, see the cgi specs. Setting
; this to 1 will cause PHP CGI to fix it's paths to conform to the spec. A setting
; of zero causes PHP to behave as before. Default is zero. You should fix your scripts
; to use SCRIPT_FILENAME rather than PATH_TRANSLATED.
cgi.fix_pathinfo=0


So UBB, please change your code the way it is supposed to be .

I think Path_info_translated was a fix that rarely occoured that path_info wouldn't populate; seems we need to take that a step further with another if/else clause to work of of script_filename as well...

I guess your right. BTW Is this fixed in the newest ubb release?

doubt it, as the translated check was only added in 7.2... You'd have to likely wait for Rick to update the topic when he fixes it

I'm looking on a proper solution for this with the variety of way we parse all of the data. Not sure if this will get into 7.3.2, but we'll see.

Yay I have a client's site that's having a bit of an issue with it (snakebit with about every aspect of his site )

Well, the problem is that SCRIPT_FILENAME just contains the path to the script, it doesn't contain anything after it.

So, something like this:

http://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/216111

SCRIPT_FILENAME only contains:

http://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat

It chops off the actual data that we need to know what topic to show.

That's something like what I'm seeing now, it cuts off after ubbthreads.php?

sounds like path_info just isn't being populated