Re: strange php url (CORRECTION)

Kevin Kinsey wrote:

Pretty good thoughts, there. Some years ago, Tim Perdue (of PHPBuilder and SourceForge fame) had a popular article on "Search Engine Friendly URL's" (or some such), in which he described use of the Apache ForceLocal directive to make a site just One Big Script, parsing the slashed portions of the query string as variables (instead of GET, a la "?section=man&term=foo") so that the browser appears to be accessing documents in subfolders, but it's really just telling the server to grab a page with certain values defined in the URI. It sure looks like a possibility of this or similar magic in this case. Of course, I could be way off my tree...

And it appears I was at least *slightly* off my tree. In looking for more info on this, my post (archived in 2 places), was the only reference to a "ForceLocal" directive in Apache that Google could find ;-) I meant "ForceType", and here's how it works in httpd.conf: <VirtualHost *> ServerName test.foo.com DocumentRoot /var/www/data/footest ServerAdmin root@localhost <Location /manual>

    ForceType application/x-httpd-php

</Location> </VirtualHost> Now, you write "manual" in PHP, (no file extension), and anything directed to "manual" is parsed by said script. Since I used the wrong terminology, I may have distracted any *real* gurus from recognizing what I was talking about. Sorry for any confusion. Kevin Kinsey -- It's hard to think of you as the end result of millions of years of evolution.