How do I stop the Path info url?

[keldorn]

I noticed on my site, I can take pages and put for example  index.php/test/does/not/exist/ and it will return the index.php as if this were another page with 200 OK response and leave the slashes on there as if it were a directory. I dont know why that is working that way. I am not using path info urls nor do I have any .htacces rules    Also I'm using Smarty template. Is there something in smarty that needs to be disabled?

[ozestretch]

Am unsure the issue?

 

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,269829.0.html/test/does/not/exist/

[keldorn]

Am unsure the issue?

 

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,269829.0.html/test/does/not/exist/

 

The issue is that it creates duplicate pages. A search will treat that link as a new page.

 

http://www.php.net/downloads.php/a/fake/link/here/

http://www.youtube.com/index.php/look/a/fake/link

That should return 404 not found.

 

 

 

[ozestretch]

Is not really a php related question...

 

Those links you provide will not be a 404 as the actual page exists

 

the server reads "index.php" as a file, not a folder... so no amount of slashes will convince it otherwise

[ozestretch]

unless of course your query is the fact it is a query string? in which case is still the same file/page... and if that page does not know those queries (more than likely a .htaccess thing. ) then it will display the page with its 'defaults'

[keldorn]

what I mean, is that Google, yahoo etc will crawl that link think its a new page? err well duplicate page.

 

[ozestretch]

Why would you create such links?

[Daniel0]

<?php
if (!empty($_SERVER['PATH_INFO'])) {
header('HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found');
die('gtfo');
}

[ozestretch]

lmao at die('gtfo');

 

and great solution