Using http://mysite.com/script.php3/p/value to pass value, PHP CGI

I'm trying to make PHP scripts that have search-engine-friendly URL's (like http://mysite.com/script.php3/p/value). I'll be passing parameters around in the URL's, but I don't want to use & and ?, since this will prevent search engines from indexing the site. I'm using PHP 3.0.16 (currently under Win32, so it's a CGI, not an Apache module) and Apache 1.3.12. I've encountered various help documents that talk about how to parse the /p/value part of the URI. I found one document that instructed me to use ForceType in my Apache conf to get all calls to folder "script" to call a PHP file called "script" in my docroot, and then have it parse the /p/value. I have had no luck in getting PHP/Apache to even get as far as opening my script. I haven't yet tried to deal with parsing issues, as this is still moot. In access.conf, I have: <Location /local> ForceType application/x-httpd-php3 </Location> In my web root, I have a file called "local". Trying to access the URL http://localhost/local yields: Fatal error: Unable to open d:\mydocroot\local\ in - on line 0 as returned from my PHP process. So, PHP is being called, but it's not winding up opening the file I want it to open. If I rename my file to "local.php3", just as an experiment, and I still use the same URL as above, the error message changes to: Fatal error: Unable to open d:\mydocroot\local.php3\ in - on line 0 Can this even be done when running PHP as a CGI? As a side question, can PHP3 be run as an Apache module? I haven't found the binaries for this anywhere. Thanks greatly for any help. I have combed many resources trying to get an answer to this question. - Ken kenzo(at)free-music.com