If Your POST Data Gone Missing…

Are you experiencing these symptoms?

• Your HTML form worked properly.
• Your .htaccess looked fine and it even worked in your local environment.
• But somehow on your production site, no matter how you submit the form, the POST data is always empty at the endpoint.
• If it’s a HTML form, when you refresh the page after the form is submitted, the browser didn’t ask you to resubmit the form again.
• Your endpoint is inside a subdirectory, not in the web root.

If that’s the case, check if the trailing slash is missing.

It just happend to me as I forgot to include a trailing slash in my form action URL, hence the URL somehow got rewritten on the fly when it tries to resolve the path to the subdirectory. Unfortunately upon the rewrite, the POST data weren’t automatically passed on.

I solved it just by adding a trailing slash. I hope this solved your problem, too.