RE: [PHP] URL modification

thnks Xavier Please consider the environment before printing this mail note. -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Rixham [mailto:nrixham@gmail.com] Sent: vendredi 22 février 2008 18:58 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] URL modification Richard Heyes wrote: >> Hmmmm... made a quick look into it. >> Seems to be apache compatible. >> I'm designing a site to be hosted on an IIS Server. >> >> Does it still works there? > > On IIS I belive the default document is default.htm Though you should be > able to modify this to whatever you please. On Apache it is index.html > or index.php (for example). Regardless you want this to be parsed by > PHP, and then you can stick the following in it: > > <?php > header('http://www.example.com/login.php'); > ?> > > Place this file in your "login" directory and then you'll be able to > publish URLs such as http://www.example.com/login The trailing > slash is > not necessary if login is a directory. For example: > > http://www.websupportsolutions.co.uk/demo > To use url's like http://domain.com/login/ as opposed to http://domain.com/login.php you can take multiple approaches. The first and simplest is to simply save your login.php as /login/index.php to use this approach you need to ensure that index.php is listed as a default page. In IIS you can set the "default" page(s) to be whatever you like: -> Open IIS Manager -> Server -> Websites -> Right Click [properties] -> select "Documents" tab -> ensure "Enable default content page" is ticked -> ensure "index.php" is listed -> if not then click [add] and enter index.php -> continue to add any other default pages [index.html, index.shtml etc] The second common solution [and I'd advise to get used to it asap] is to use URL rewriting. In short url rewriting involves defining "rules" which the web server uses to direct http requests to resources on the server. eg: direct domain.com/all_our_news to /index.php?newsitem=all a quick intro guide can be found here: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/guide-url-rewriting For URL rewriting in IIS use "ISAPI Rewrite" - http://www.isapirewrite.com/ in apache use mod_rewrite [apache1.3>] httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html [apache2.0>] httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html Both are pretty much identical when it comes to the end rewrite rules. Hope that helps a little Nathan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php