alt Hacker News> You are spreading misinformation then.
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> because the problem is with how PHP processed the request well before the configuration or your PHP code was executed.
That's what I wrote? You can't do anything once PHP executed. It could still be worse, because you can still prevent PHP from running, because there is still the webserver before. If it were in the webserver itself, you couldn't do anything, short of stopping the server from running.
> The configuration change was never a full protection from this vulnerability
It is, if the configuration change prevents PHP from running. That's how you could say it is overblown. You are not vulnerable if you don't run PHP.
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You kept talking about some configuration change that makes things "overblown", without making it clear you meant "turn off PHP". So yes that's misinformation.
It's not overblown if the only non-patch fix is "turn off PHP".
And that's assuming you actually meant "turn off PHP" the entire time? Your earlier phrasing suggests you have something that leaves PHP running in mind, but if that's entirely hypothetical then again we're back to misinformation. (And when you argue it's Turing complete, that only means that a patch must be possible. It doesn't mean there's a config fix.)
Edit: stray "not"
So basically what you're saying is you aren't vulnerable if you turn off your website.
The server configuration to mitigate this is to comment out the whole configuration so there's no server.