diff --git a/sapi/fpm/fpm/fpm_main.c b/sapi/fpm/fpm/fpm_main.c
index 57006a15c7a08..b05114e68216f 100644
--- a/sapi/fpm/fpm/fpm_main.c
+++ b/sapi/fpm/fpm/fpm_main.c
@@ -1103,6 +1103,7 @@ static void init_request_info(void)
 			script_path_translated = __unixify(script_path_translated, 0, NULL, 1, 0);
 #endif
 
+			
 			/*
 			 * if the file doesn't exist, try to extract PATH_INFO out
 			 * of it by stat'ing back through the '/'
@@ -1118,8 +1119,19 @@ static void init_request_info(void)
 				char *ptr;
 
 				if (pt) {
+					// If DocumentRoot contains special characters like '%' or  cyrillic 'рф' and PHP is invoked with SetHandler (not applicable to ProxyPassMatch),
+					// then the special characters are urlencoded by apache, and we need to decode them, for example with
+					// DocumentRoot /home/hans/web/cyrillicрф.ratma.net/public_html/test%lol
+					// env_script_filename contains /home/hans/web/cyrillic%D1%80%D1%84.ratma.net/public_html/test%25lol/index.php.
+					// and we must decode it to /home/hans/web/cyrillicрф.ratma.net/public_html/test%lol/index.php.
+					if(apache_was_here && memchr(pt, '%', len)) {
+						len = php_raw_url_decode(pt, len);
+						ptr = &pt[len]; // php_raw_url_decode() writes a trailing null byte, &pt[len] is that null byte.
+						goto apache_special_jump;
+					}
 					while ((ptr = strrchr(pt, '/')) || (ptr = strrchr(pt, '\\'))) {
 						*ptr = 0;
+						apache_special_jump:
 						if (stat(pt, &st) == 0 && S_ISREG(st.st_mode)) {
 							/*
 							 * okay, we found the base script!