From 6145df667059ca50b56107ba4128fa7ff892f8f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 09:15:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] trim initial '/' from paths

---
 index.php | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
index 850208c9d1..49fd187100 100644
--- a/index.php
+++ b/index.php
@@ -49,21 +49,33 @@ $action = null;
 
 function getPath($req)
 {
+    $p = null;
+
     if ((common_config('site', 'fancy') || !array_key_exists('PATH_INFO', $_SERVER))
         && array_key_exists('p', $req)
     ) {
-        return $req['p'];
+        $p = $req['p'];
     } else if (array_key_exists('PATH_INFO', $_SERVER)) {
         $path = $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];
         $script = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
         if (substr($path, 0, mb_strlen($script)) == $script) {
-            return substr($path, mb_strlen($script));
+            $p = substr($path, mb_strlen($script));
         } else {
-            return $path;
+            $p = $path;
         }
     } else {
-        return null;
+        $p = null;
     }
+
+    // Trim all initial '/'
+
+    if (!empty($p)) {
+        while ($p[0] == '/') {
+            $p = substr($p, 1);
+        }
+    }
+
+    return $p;
 }
 
 /**