Re: Redirecting to PHP script

Addressed to: "Nick Talbott" <nickt@powys.gov.uk> php-general@lists.php.net ** Reply to note from "Nick Talbott" <nickt@powys.gov.uk> Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:27:28 +0100 > > Hello, new list! > > I wonder if anyone has a suggestion to how I might make the following > work (better than the way I am currently doing it). Sorry, this is > going to take a bit of explaining :-) > > What I am doing is this: (PHP as Apache module on Linux) > > Someone accesses a site using a url like www.mysite.org/john > > Now the resource (file or directory) "john" will not exist. What I > want to do is to remap that url to a php script that does a database > lookup on "john" and generates the site from a template. > What I would do: Change the url you hit to www.mysite.org/info/john In the VirtualHost block for www.mysite.org add: <Location /info> ForceType application/x-httpd-php </Location> The file info in your DocumentRoot for www.mysite.org is a php program that uses $PATH_INFO to extract john from the incoming url and lookup the data. (echo it, or use phpinfo() to see what you get.) I still haven't figured out a way to make this work without having a file that you name within the top level directory for the php code, but that isn't a problem for me, it just makes the url a little longer. Rick Widmer Internet Marketing Specialists www.developersdesk.com