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copied!<p><code>action</code> is the target of the form. <code>method</code> is the submit type. <code>method</code> would be what determines if <code>$_POST</code> is populated or <code>$_GET</code>.</p> <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p> <p>after a down vote, and some changes to the question, it seems that this response is not what the questioner is looking for.</p> <p><code>/questions/ask/submit</code> is probably controlled by a CMS. meaning most requests are redirected to a single file, which then interprets them. This redirect is done with mod_rewrite usually, as your question indicates. mod_rewrite accepts a number of 'switches' to tell it what to do. That being said, there is no known bug with mod_rewrite 'messing up' <code>$_POST</code> data. Apache is what passes this data to PHP. mod_rewrite passes that to Apache. If your <code>$_POST</code> data gets messed up, you have a bad rule some where.</p> <p>Here is an example of how a common CMS, WordPress, directs all traffic, regardless of method, to a central controller, which then interprets the untarnished <code>$_POST</code> data:</p> <pre><code># BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress </code></pre> <p>TOP DOWN EXPLANATION:</p> <ul> <li>only execute this if the mod_rewrite module is active</li> <li>turn on the rewrite engine, so that it accepts your new rules</li> <li>make all your rewrites, rewrite to the document root <code>/</code></li> <li>if the request was directly to <code>index.php</code> then force mod_rewrite to not process more rules and load index.php</li> <li>if the requested url does not directly map to a file</li> <li>AND if the requested url does not direclty map to a directory</li> <li>send all data, including requested url, _GET, _POST, etc, to index.php, and dont process any other rules</li> </ul> <p><strong>EDIT (after sample files were submitted in question)</strong></p> <p>Here are my complete files. With these exact files, on a Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.4 install, this works perfectly.</p> <p><strong>.htaccess</strong></p> <pre><code># BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress </code></pre> <p><strong>index.php</strong></p> <pre><code><?php $q = explode("/", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); if($q[1]!=""){ switch($q[1]){ case "test": include("test.php"); break; } } </code></pre> <p><strong>test.php</strong></p> <pre><code><?php if(isset($_POST["submitButton"])){ echo "Submitted"; }else{ echo "Not submitted"; } ?> <form method="post" action="/test/submit"> <input type="submit" name="submitButton"> </form> </code></pre> <p><strong>directory list, so you can compare permissions</strong></p> <p>NOTE: <em>apache runs as nobody.nobody on my test machine</em></p> <pre><code>drwxrwxr-x 2 nobody git 4096 Dec 22 03:34 ./ drwxrwxr-x 3 nobody git 4096 Dec 22 03:26 ../ -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody git 244 Dec 22 03:29 .htaccess -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody git 134 Dec 22 03:27 index.php -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody git 194 Dec 22 03:28 test.php </code></pre> <p>If this does not work for you, you probably have a permission problem. This exact code works.</p>

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