How to get php request URI without context path?

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`$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']` returns URI with context path. For example, if the base URL of a website is `http://localhost:8080/sitename/` (i.e. the context path is sitename), and I use `$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']` for `http://localhost:8080/sitename/portfolio/design`, it will return `/sitename/portfolio/design`. I am then exploding the result to interpret my clean URLs: ``` $page=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; $segments=explode('/',trim($page,'/')); $sitePage = $segments[1];//portfolio ``` This is working fine for my local testing environment, but on the production server, `$segments[1]` must become `$segments[0]` In order to use the same code in development and production, is there any way to get only this part `/portfolio/design`, i.e. the URI without context path?

Accepted Answer

You can use virtual hosts so your test site will be on:

```
http://sitename.localhost:8080/
```

That way absolute paths (relative to the web-root) will be the same on the test server and the production server.

The how-to depends on the test server you are using.

How to get php request URI without context path?

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