Shared Hosting Glide 403 Error #587

lucidpolygon · 2025-03-05T16:35:16Z

lucidpolygon
Mar 5, 2025

I encountered a 403 error with Glide URLs on my shared hosting, as shown in the screenshot. Everything works well in my local hosting (herd). But seems to have issue when in production. Seem like some sort of server config thing.

#333 (Related). They seemed to have solved it, but I can't make it work with .htaccess / apache.

After looking into it, it appears that the signature or URL parameters are somehow getting lost before reaching the show method.

Interestingly, when I disabled the try/catch signature checking mechanism, the issue seemed to resolve itself.

class MediaController extends Controller
{
    public function show(Request $request, $path)
    {
        $routeBasePath = Str::of(config('curator.glide.route_path', 'curator'))->trim('/')->prepend('/')->append('/')->toString();
        
        /*
        try {
            SignatureFactory::create(config('app.key'))->validateRequest($routeBasePath . $path, $request->all());
        } catch (SignatureException $e) {
            abort(403);
        } catch (FileNotFoundException $e) {
            abort(404);
        }
        */

        $media = app(Media::class)::query()->where('path', $path)->first();

        if ($media && ! $media->resizable) {
            return Storage::disk($media->disk)->response($media->path);
        }

        $server = app(config('curator.glide.server'))->getFactory();
        $server->setBaseUrl($routeBasePath);

        return $server->getImageResponse($path, request()->all());
    }
}

So, the query parameters are still not making it through to the route for some reason.

I came across a similar query on this topic at #500. I've tried different versions of the solution in my .htaccess file but haven't had any success yet.

Any guidance on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated.

my .htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews -Indexes
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine On

    # Handle Authorization Header
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

    # Handle X-XSRF-Token Header
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:x-xsrf-token} .
    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN:%{HTTP:X-XSRF-Token}]

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
    RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]

    # Send Requests To Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

awcodes · 2025-03-05T23:14:51Z

awcodes
Mar 5, 2025
Maintainer

Wish I had an answer for you. Might need to reach out to your service provider. Definitely sounds like a config issue though. While laravel works in shared services it wasn't designed to do so.

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lucidpolygon Mar 6, 2025
Author

So, after doing some more investigating, I discovered that all the query parameters were being passed along just fine, except for those related to image files like jpg, jpeg, and png.

It seems my hosting provider was hijacking my requests with images to optimize and serve them up as static assets instead of through the proper Laravel route. This caused us to lose all of those query parameters in the process.

I disabled that setting, and now the images are being served up perfectly again!

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