Another Homepage 404 Error

pietrogregorini

Hi @mad
I installed Automad (version 1.8.7, since I still cannot use PHP 7.4 on my hosting service) in a subfolder and everything looks fine: I can use the dashboard and see inner pages, but the homepage doesn't work and result in a 404 error. I've tried several things but I cannot figure out why – by the way, redirects on my Apache server works fine.

Here is the homepage. Debug mode is on so you can check all the data in the console if there's something wrong: https://www.pietrogregorini.com/test/

Let me know if you need more details!
Thank you 🙏

mad

pietrogregorini Hi, I have taken a look at the debug log. It turns out that your server populates the ORIG_PATH_INFO with a wrong value. It contains the full path to your subfolder instead of just the actual path starting from the index.php. It probably has to do with the fact that the installation is nested within another site. That shouldn't be a problem but somehow there is some interference.

But you can fix this probably with redirecting the /test/index.php to /test/index.php?/ within your .htaccess. That way the ORIG_PATH_INFO will be ignored.

pietrogregorini

Thank you so much @mad
I'm honest, I can't figure out how to fix the .htaccess as you said – the rewrite rule seems to be already like that, but probably I'm looking into the wrong stuff 😬

Anyway, I also wrote to my hosting support to check if there are some issues going on at the server level.

pietrogregorini

With a little more testing I found out that PATH_INFO is not set if I use the question mark – ORIG_PATH_INFO is set but not the right value: https://www.pietrogregorini.com/test/index.php?/blog/article

Interestingly, if I skip that, PATH_INFO is correct – though ORIG_PATH_INFO keeps being wrong, since it includes the full path: https://www.pietrogregorini.com/test/index.php/blog/article

In this way, though, I was able to see the homepage: https://www.pietrogregorini.com/test/index.php/

I don't know if it makes any sense 😂

mad

pietrogregorini The fact that the PATH_INFO is empty when using the ? is actually correct since the path starts after the index.php and ends at the ? and therefore is empty. The issue is still that ORIG_PATH_INFO has a weird value. It should also be empty.

Is there some redirection going on in the main website?

pietrogregorini

@mad Thanks for the explanation! Now I got that.

Actually, there are no redirections, I also switched off the .htaccess in the root, which was mainly for ETags and caching, and the HTTP > HTTPS redirection in the hosting panel – just in case – but nothing changed. I also contacted the hosting support asking for what's going on. Let's see what they answer, though I don't have any trust in their knowledge: I already told them about the issue and they thought that was normal for ORIG_PATH_INFO to have the relative path 🙄

Anyway, I temporarily solved the issue by tweaking the core code a bit – not ideal, I know, but that's the only workaround I was able to achieve. Basically, I changed line 9 of Request.php like this:
} elseif (isset($_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO']) && ($_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO'] != $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])) {
and now it works as expected: https://www.pietrogregorini.com/test/

mad

pietrogregorini Great!