'file_get_contents('php://input') not working. Empty - NULL

I having this problem for the last 12 hours, i read about 50 articles, 50 questions here, i can't fix it. I will be more precise, i want others get the solution too.

The problem: I have a hosting account in namech****, and a local server. Linux there and Xampp Windows here, this only works in my local server. 

test.php:

<?php    
    $data = json_decode(file_get_contents("php://input"), true);
        var_dump($data);
?>

The post request is:

POST /test.php HTTP/1.1
Host: myweb.io
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 77

{
  "test": "product/created",
  "other": "https://google.com/"
}

I use REQBIN for test the POST request.

This is the response in my hosting:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 17:04:33 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/7.4.5
Content-Encoding: gzip
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

NULL

This is the correct response on my local enviroment using XAMPP

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 17:15:19 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.41 (Win64) OpenSSL/1.1.1c PHP/7.4.3
X-Powered-By: PHP/7.4.3
Content-Length: 94
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Array
(
    [test] => product/created
    [other] => https://google.com/
)

Things i've tried:

  • Set the allow_url_fopen to 1, or 0.
  • Downgrade PHP versión (Tried 7.1,2,3,4)
  • Uninstall SSL Certificate
  • Millions of things in PHP.INI
  • Removing htaccess
  • Removing some php modules / extensions UPDATE:
  • The file is individual, cheched that the function is only execute one time
  • I check if there are no redirections. (Htaccess, cPanel settings)
phpfile-get-contents


Solution 1:[1]

I fix it, don't know how, but i think the solution was: Delete my htaccess completely, no redirections (http to https). Dont test with reqbin, test it with php pure code, or PostMan.

Solution 2:[2]

Believe it or not:

Changing: RewriteRule ^ /%1 [NC,L,R]

to

RewriteRule ^ %1 [NC,L,R]

and then back to

RewriteRule ^ /%1 [NC,L,R]

And similarly RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?$ /$1.php [NC,L]

to

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

and then back to

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

Appeared to sort it out!

Solution 3:[3]

I also had this problem, and I realized that my address was http:// instead of https://.

Now I have something with file_get_contents("php://input")

I hope this will solve your problem.

Solution 4:[4]

I had the same issue; apparently an HTTP Redirect (e.g 301 to https) was prohibiting the data from being redirected along.

Make sure you have no redirects.

Sources

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Source: Stack Overflow

Solution Source
Solution 1 Ayrton Scott
Solution 2 Pieter Eksteen
Solution 3 cursorrux
Solution 4 Al-Punk

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