i have my website running locally on my machine for testing purposes. i got php, mysql, and apache up and running, and i can access my site fine, but none of hte variables that get passed in from the url are being used. i'm guessing i need to enable something in php.ini or something, but i'm not sure what. anyone have any ideas? i tried getting help at webdevelopers.com forum, but no luck there. i explain my problem in more detail there if you need a little more. for brevity's sake i'm not going to post it all again and this seems like a very simple configuration error. the post can be found here
http://www.webdevelopers.com/forum/s...threadid=40775

thanks in advance

Simple solution:

Check php.ini.

Look for: Data handling section

See what the argument input separation is. And use that, or make your own separation character. Just follow the instructions for it.

And remember, after every change you make to the php.ini, you must restart the httpd service:

/sbin/service httpd restart (as root)

Good luck!

Peace!

Also make sure that the directory set in the Session section, for temporary files for a session is writable for the apache user. That could help.

thanks for the replies. marghorp...my site uses '&'s to separate variables. i've already set that part of the php.ini file, thinkin that must be the problem. i changed it to this

arg_separator.input = "&"

but it didn't fix it.also i tried

session.save_path = "/tmp"

and that had no effect either. is there something else that could be causing it? i appreciate the help

One silly, thing I am sure you thought off, but I don't know if you did. IF you noticed that comments are marked with ; in php.ini

So please check that the arg_separator.input = "&"

DOES NOT begin with a ; because that means it is commented out and has no meaning if you changed it. I am almost sure that those two things I told you about in the previous posts are responsible for the arguments not to be passed around.

figured out what it was...wasn't QUITE as silly as forgetting to remove the ';', but it wasn't far from it. i had register_globals = Off =)

Glad to see, you made it. It feels good, right?