Support: IIS mysterious backslash in PDF generator URL

Hi

Firstly, the system looks wonderful, and it seems like it will satisfy everything I need.

But, my PDF's are not being automatically generated. The good news is that I know why. Where I need help is in a permanent fix for this.

When I click the PDF icon to get my PDF invoice, it reloads but moans:

Cannot connect to invoices.lan\:80 - (12637320)

Connection error

Could not open URL http://invoices.lan\/index.php?module=invoices&view=templates/template&invoice=9&action=view&location=pdf you've specified.

No response from server

Fetching: http://invoices.lan\/index.php?module=invoices&view=templates/template&invoice=9&action=view&location=pdf Cannot connect to invoices.lan\:80 - (12637320) Cannot open [url=http://invoices.lan\/index.php?module=invoices&view=templates/template&invoice=9&action=view&location=pdf]http://invoices.lan\/index.php?module=invoices&view=templates/template&invoice=9&action=view&location=pdf

The problem is the odd backslash after invoices.lan.

When I change the URL from

http://invoices.lan/library/pdf/html2ps.php?&process_mode=single&renderfields=1&renderlinks=1&renderimages=1&scalepoints=1&pixels=800&media=A4&leftmargin=15&rightmargin=15&topmargin=15&bottommargin=15&transparency_workaround=1&imagequality_workaround=1&output=1&location=pdf&pdfname=Invoice9&URL=http%3A%2F%2Finvoices.lan%5C%2Findex.php%3Fmodule%3Dinvoices%26view%3Dtemplates%2Ftemplate%26invoice%3D9%26action%3Dview%26location%3Dpdf

to

http://invoices.lan/library/pdf/html2ps.php?&process_mode=single&renderfields=1&renderlinks=1&renderimages=1&scalepoints=1&pixels=800&media=A4&leftmargin=15&rightmargin=15&topmargin=15&bottommargin=15&transparency_workaround=1&imagequality_workaround=1&output=1&location=pdf&pdfname=Invoice9&URL=http%3A%2F%2Finvoices.lan%2Findex.php%3Fmodule%3Dinvoices%26view%3Dtemplates%2Ftemplate%26invoice%3D9%26action%3Dview%26location%3Dpdf

Look for invoices.lan in the URL - I removed the backslash (%5C) ... and then it works.

I was hoping that you clever people could point me to the right place to make this a permanent fix?

I'm using Vista Home Premium (no comments please :) ...), IIS7, MySQL, and PHP5 ...

Also, I was getting many notices about undeclared variables, so I used the config.php line "error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);" so those went away. But one persisted. Namely REQUEST_URI was not populated by IIS. Searching the net led me to this fix:


// Work around REQUEST_URI bug under W2K/IIS/CGI/PHP
if (!isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) and isset($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])) {
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) and !empty($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']))
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] .= '?' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];


from https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3000 (but the PDF problem existed before anyway... so this code didn't introduce the problem).

Thanks for listening... I hope we have a fix for my configuration to help some other Microsoft user out there :)

Regards
Yusuf

Hey Yusufm,

thanks for finding the solution

but wondering if you can try editing the way Simple Invoices gets the url

refer: ./includes/sql_queries.php

function urlPDF($invoiceID)
{

global $http_auth;

$script = "/index.php?module=invoices&view=templates/template&invoice=$invoiceID&action=view&location=pdf";
$port = "";
$dir = dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);

//set the port of http(s) section
if(isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS']=='on') {
$_SERVER['FULL_URL'] = "https://";
//http://simpleinvoices.org/forum/topic-457.html
//below code no longer required - please test if your using a non standard port
/*
if($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT']!="443") {
$port .= "://" . $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'];
}
*/
} else {
$_SERVER['FULL_URL'] = "http://";
//http://simpleinvoices.org/forum/topic-457.html
//below code no longer required - please test if your using a non standard port
/*
if($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT']!="80") {
$port = ":" . $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'];
}
*/
}

//merge it all togehter
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) {
$_SERVER['FULL_URL'] .= $http_auth.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$dir.$script;
} else {
$_SERVER['FULL_URL'] .= $http_auth.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$dir.$script;
}

return $_SERVER['FULL_URL'];

}

and see if you can fix it that way

as editing a 3rd party library that we depend on is not the best way - as when we go to update it - we might forget to reapply this fix

Cheers

Justin