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Mariusz Kruk	Wednesday 28 July 2010 7:22:59 am Hello. I've got a site built over eZPublish 3.9.0 (I know, quite old but I can't change it for now) that works with URLs passed as query string (index.php?/whatever). But since some services (most notably Facebook) mangle the URL changing slashes to %2F which gets eZ confused, we tried to pass URLs as pathinfo. And I've got no idea why it's not working. If I try to reach /any/path/inside/the/site I'm getting the main page without many elements (styles, for example) loading properly. The question is - where can I look to see what's going on and why it's behaving this way. Or maybe you know a way to make eZ treat %2F as normal slash?
Mariusz Kruk	Thursday 05 August 2010 1:09:41 am I've done some research and found out that: 1. 3.9 simply can't percent-decode query string. Newer version I have on another host can. Tough luck because I can't upgrade for now for reasons described below. 2. A clean installation of vanilla 3.9 can handle pathinfo correctly (set up in another directory of the same host, so the apache settings are the same). So it seems something is broken inside that particular installation. It seems that even tho index.php gets called with the proper REQUEST_URI, the apropriate module is not called. Instead the main page is loaded (but most related files (styles, scripts) have relative pathnames so they do not load correctly). Unfortunately, the service was set up by a third-party and, as far as I know they were not very familiar with eZPublish so they did some dirty hacking (and that's why I can't simply upgrade to a current version and I'm stuck with php4 :-/). The problem is - I don't know where to look for causes of my problem. What could they have broken so that my eZPublish doesn't interpret pathinfo correctly?

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Wednesday 28 July 2010 7:22:59 am

Hello.

I've got a site built over eZPublish 3.9.0 (I know, quite old but I can't change it for now) that works with URLs passed as query string (index.php?/whatever). But since some services (most notably Facebook) mangle the URL changing slashes to %2F which gets eZ confused, we tried to pass URLs as pathinfo. And I've got no idea why it's not working. If I try to reach /any/path/inside/the/site I'm getting the main page without many elements (styles, for example) loading properly.

The question is - where can I look to see what's going on and why it's behaving this way.

Or maybe you know a way to make eZ treat %2F as normal slash?

Mariusz Kruk

Thursday 05 August 2010 1:09:41 am

I've done some research and found out that:

1. 3.9 simply can't percent-decode query string. Newer version I have on another host can. Tough luck because I can't upgrade for now for reasons described below.

2. A clean installation of vanilla 3.9 can handle pathinfo correctly (set up in another directory of the same host, so the apache settings are the same). So it seems something is broken inside that particular installation. It seems that even tho index.php gets called with the proper REQUEST_URI, the apropriate module is not called. Instead the main page is loaded (but most related files (styles, scripts) have relative pathnames so they do not load correctly). Unfortunately, the service was set up by a third-party and, as far as I know they were not very familiar with eZPublish so they did some dirty hacking (and that's why I can't simply upgrade to a current version and I'm stuck with php4 :-/). The problem is - I don't know where to look for causes of my problem. What could they have broken so that my eZPublish doesn't interpret pathinfo correctly?

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 18 2025 05:13:24
Script start
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 05:13:24
Module start 'layout'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 05:13:24
Module start 'content'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 05:13:24
Module end 'content'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 05:13:24
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	0.0150 sec
Peak memory usage	2,048.0000 KB
Database Queries	3

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0048	589.4453	152.6406
Module start 'layout'	0.0048	0.0025	742.0859	39.4766
Module start 'content'	0.0073	0.0054	781.5625	89.1641
Module end 'content'	0.0127	0.0022	870.7266	30.3047
Script end	0.0149		901.0313

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0024	16.2510	14	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0010	6.8697	14	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0008	5.3337	1	0.0008
Mysqli_queries	0.0021	14.0799	3	0.0007
Looping result	0.0000	0.1735	1	0.0000
Template Total	0.0018	12.0	1	0.0018
Template load	0.0010	6.4224	1	0.0010
Template processing	0.0008	5.5422	1	0.0008
Override
Cache load	0.0007	4.3787	1	0.0007
General
dbfile	0.0013	8.5361	8	0.0002
String conversion	0.0000	0.0557	4	0.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

Templates used to render the page:

Usage	Requested template	Template	Template loaded	Edit	Override
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 1 Number of unique templates used: 1

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs