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Maurício Giordano
Maurício Giordano

Reputation: 3276

$_POST is empty. Nginx OSx

I'm trying to access $_POST and it's empty.

If I try to access it on the root (ie. localhost), it WORKS. If I try to access in a different folder (ie. localhost/foo), it DOESN'T WORK.

Here is my config file:

 server {
        listen   80;    

        root /var/www;
        index index.php index.html index.htm;

        server_name localhost;

        error_page 404 /404.html;

        error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
        location = /50x.html {
              root /usr/share/nginx/www;
        }

        # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on the php-fpm socket
        location ~ \.php {
                try_files $uri =404;
                fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                include fastcgi_params;
        }

}

Here is a sample RAW request:

POST /dev/post-test HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Cache-Control: no-cache

----WebKitFormBoundaryE19zNvXGzXaLvS5C
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="action"

store
----WebKitFormBoundaryE19zNvXGzXaLvS5C
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="id"

4315251
----WebKitFormBoundaryE19zNvXGzXaLvS5C

What is the problem?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2473

Answers (2)

Sam Tyurenkov
Sam Tyurenkov

Reputation: 440

I had same issue - empty $_POST variable.

And found that this happens if a request is sent with this header and the destionation is http instead of https: 

Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

In my case I was sending requests from my Unity game to it's server. And it turned out Unity adds that header to all requests sent from the game.

So I had to enable SSL for the server domain and switch from http to https. Once I did that - it worked.

Upvotes: -1

sebkrueger
sebkrueger

Reputation: 386

The key on this differnet behavier is the trailing slash in the route.

For nginx the following are two different requests:

http://localhost/foo
http://localhost/foo/

The first one result in an internal 301 redirect (to index.php into that folder), where the $_POST values are lost.

More about this behavior and solution to prevent it, read the answers below: Nginx causes 301 redirect if there's no trailing slash

Upvotes: 4

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