How to pass params in URL without ? or &?

Surely SOMEBODY has dealt with this issue before. To reiterate, I want to have a URL like: http://mysite.com/script.php3/p/value/p2/value2/ and have it call my script "script.php3" and pass it parameters p and p2, with values value and value2. I know how to parse "/p/value/p2/value2/" within my script to achieve that result, but I can't figure out how to configure my Apache or PHP3 to even call "script.php3" when given a URL like the above. I'm stuck. The only thing I can think of is that it might not be doable when running PHP as a CGI instead of running PHP as an Apache module. Can anyone solve this one? Thanks greatly. Original message is below. - Ken kenzo (at) free-music.com >Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 06:01:05 -0500 >To: php-general@lists.php.net >From: Ken <kenzo@free-music.com> >Subject: [PHP] 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