[php-maint] Bug#492739: $_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED'] does not more work

[Michelle Konzack]

Package: php5
Version: 5.2.0-8+etch10
Severity: important

Hello Maintainer,

while under Sarge with  php4  $_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED']  was  working
properly and also under php5 on the Gentoo VHost of my ISP, but it does
not work on my recently installed Etch Server @home.

My whole site with all its nearly 200 VHosts is ONLY a singel /index.php
and the contents is generated based on $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] but since
I need the physical path, my website is entirely broken.

Note:   The path to the /index.php is
            /var/www/customers/konzack/sites/index.php
        and $_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED'] returns "/" which is wrong.

Please can you look at it?

The code sniplet from the beginning of the /index.php is:

----[ '/var/www/customers/konzack/sites/index.php' ]--------------------
<?php

$MY_PATH=dirname(dirname($_SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"]));

$MY_CONFIG="$MY_PATH/HOST_" . $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"];

if ( is_file($MY_CONFIG) ) {
  include $MY_CONFIG;
} else {
  header("Content-Type: text/plain");
  die("Config for host \"$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]\" not found.\n($MY_CONFIG)");
}
<snip>
------------------------------------------------------------------------

And currently I have hardcoded the $MY_PATH which  is  not  the  optimal
solution since it can be forgotten.

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    24V Electronic Engineer
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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