Apache rewrite – get original URL in PHP

by

It really depends on the PHP setup. With mod_php you oftentimes still have the original request path in REQUEST_URI. For CGI or FastCGI setups it is quite commonly REDIRECT_URL. You will have to check a phpinfo() page to be sure.

If you really can’t find anything that would help, then it’s time for cheating! You can adapt your RewriteRule like this to retain the original URL in an environment variable of your chosing:

RewriteRule ^(\w+)$   test.php?ref=$1    [E=ORIG_URI:/$1]

This would then be available as $_SERVER["ORIG_URI"], or you can just get it from the URI with $_GET[‘ref’].
But you would have to use this trick on all potential RewriteRules.

More Related Contents:

  1. Get url as www.abcd.com?curr=USD
  2. How do I send to the current page? [closed]
  3. How to create friendly URL in php?
  4. How can I check if a URL exists via PHP?
  5. Why is the hash part of the URL not available on the server side?
  6. How to get URL of current page in PHP [duplicate]
  7. How to replace text URLs and exclude URLs in HTML tags?
  8. Passing multiple variables to another page in url
  9. Check whether image exists on remote URL
  10. best way to determine if a URL is an image in PHP
  11. What is the best way to check if a URL exists in PHP?
  12. How to get the value after the hash in “somepage.php#name”?
  13. Extract URL from string
  14. Need a good regex to convert URLs to links but leave existing links alone
  15. Using PHP Replace SPACES in URLS with %20
  16. nginx redirect loop, remove index.php from url
  17. Change WordPress Admin URL
  18. encodeURI() in PHP?
  19. What are fragment URLs and why to use them?
  20. Get current URL path with query string in PHP [duplicate]
  21. How to pass a PHP variable using the URL
  22. Get parts of URL in PHP
  23. URL Decoding in PHP
  24. get url content PHP [duplicate]
  25. WAMP – Remove localhost from project URL
  26. PHP regex for validating a URL
  27. How to properly create HTML links in PHP?
  28. Regular Expressions: How to Express \w Without Underscore
  29. How do I apply URL normalization rules in PHP?
  30. Replace all characters that aren’t letters and numbers with a hyphen [duplicate]

Leave a Comment