How do you configure Apache/PHP to accept slashes in query strings?

Question

I have two Apache servers running PHP. One accepts forward-slashes in the query string and passes it along to PHP in the expected way, for example:

http://server         


        

Answer 1

This sounds like another case of default magic_quotes_gpc. On the server causing problems check the php.ini and make sure that

magic_quotes_gpc = Off