Installing and upgrading help

Hi Florian,
?file= works even when slasharguments proper configuration is available, for backward compatibility, in case someone bookmarked or stored the "old" URLs.

In the mean time, simply add:

$CFG->slasharguments = false;

in your config.php file to override/force the setting: this is a temporary workaround.

That being said, I'm not familiar with your setup - why not using PHP-FPM? Constraints from the panel of your shared env? - but from the net it looks like you're missing:

• php.ini: cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1
• fcgid.conf (missing in your archive): FcgidFixPathinfo 1

If the configuration above won't still work the only idea I could share is to define the missing PATH_INFO variable, in the context of Moodle, in the environment e.g.:

SetEnvIf Request_URI "^(.+\.php)(/.+)$" PATH_INFO=$2

like done in nginx (https://docs.moodle.org/33/en/Nginx#PHP-FPM).

To test if it will work in any case, just drop the simple file below (name it e.g. __info__.php) in the home of your Moodle install (the same where config.php has been stored):

<?php phpinfo();

and point your browser to it by adding some slash arguments, e.g.: http://<hostname>/__info__.php/path/to/a/file.jpg, and look at the server variables to discover among them one called PATH_INFO and its expected value, /path/to/a/file.jpg.

HTH,
Matteo