How can I get the current page's full URL on a Windows/IIS server?

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CtrlDot picture CtrlDot · Oct 9, 2008 · Viewed 333.4k times · Source

I moved a WordPress installation to a new folder on a Windows/IIS server. I'm setting up 301 redirects in PHP, but it doesn't seem to be working. My post URLs have the following format:

http:://www.example.com/OLD_FOLDER/index.php/post-title/

I can't figure out how to grab the /post-title/ part of the URL.

$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] - which everyone seems to recommend - is returning an empty string. $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] is just returning index.php. Why is this, and how can I fix it?

Answer

Vinko Vrsalovic picture Vinko Vrsalovic · Oct 9, 2008

Maybe, because you are under IIS, 

$_SERVER['PATH_INFO']

is what you want, based on the URLs you used to explain.

For Apache, you'd use $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].

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