Do not rely on function apache_get_modules() to detect mod_rewrite

[zraly]

In these two examples

https://github.com/nette/examples/blob/master/CD-collection/app/bootstrap.php#L31 https://github.com/nette/examples/blob/master/Modules-Usage/app/bootstrap.php#L32

function apache_get_modules is used to detect mod_rewrite, but this is not reliable way, because this works only when PHP is installed as an Apache module. So it doesn't work with fastCGI, FPM or nginx configurations.

[dg]

What is solution?

[zraly]

I think there is no possibility to check mod_rewrite from php, except trying it through a request with cURL or something.

It just seemed to me that it would be better to have the example without this check and let the setting on the programmer.

[dg]

What you mean by „it doesn't work with fastCGI, FPM or nginx configurations.“? Examples don't work?

[zraly]

Examples work, but the detection doesn't. This is what happened: Someone created a website based on this example and put it on our hosting. It worked, until we changed PHP from apache_module to FPM.

If there were no apache-based detection, programmer would have to decide to use mod_rewrite or not himself at the start. And probability that some hosting drops mod_rewrite support is none (I hope).