Why same .htaccess commands working differently in localhost and server?

Question

I have the following .htaccess command for redirection of php pages

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

This code is working in localhost.It is not working in web server. But when code is slightly modified it works in server.

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

Why is this happening?

The first url uses something called path info. The second url uses the query string. I assume that you are using a framework of some kind? — Sumurai8, Jun 16 '15 at 13:31
possible duplicate? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2261951/what-exactly-is-path-info-in-php — Sumurai8, Jun 16 '15 at 13:45
When i have changed the rule I have to use parse_url function so that I haven't get any values through $_GET method — Nithin Mohan, Jun 16 '15 at 14:00
Well, you do not pass a key-value pair as the query-string, so `$_GET` does not contain anything useful. If you would use `?url=/$1` you could use `$_GET["url"]`. — Sumurai8, Jun 16 '15 at 14:12
I wonder how the 1st code works on localhost. index.php/any probably doesn't exist and you must get the 404 error. — , Jun 16 '15 at 14:31

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

The reason this is happening is because you probably have different PHP versions running. I believe this has been considered a PHP bug for some time but don't quote me on that. You might be running an earlier version of PHP (Like maybe 5.2.X) on your localhost and newer on your web server. It's not an .htaccess issue. It's PHP. You just have to know which one to use depending on the version.

Take this answer for reference as well.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/4365161/330987

Why same .htaccess commands working differently in localhost and server?

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