Re: User-friendly URI's

Why not just make the script name "news.php" and not worry about it? On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Mike Eheler wrote: > A 404 ErrorDoc would still reply with a 404 code, which could mess up > some search engines. > > I was thinking of the .htaccess solution, but I'm not sure if that's > possible to force only certain files or perhaps all files in just a > certain directory to all be application/x-httpd-php? > > I guess that would be the best solution. :) > > Or would it? What if I have an images/ subfolder.. I certainly wouldn't > want all my images being thrown through PHP. That could cause some > ugliness. So I guess it would have to be un-doable. Is it? > > Mike > > Jason Murray wrote: > > >>"news" would actually be a PHP script, of course. I know how > >>to handle /2002/01/02/keyword as parameters, my question is on > >>making "news" be interpreted through PHP. > >> > > > > Off the top of my head... > > > > You could either use a .htaccess to force Apache to recognise > > "news" as a PHP script, or you could use a Custom 404 page to > > figure out what the heck the original URL was trying to get at > > and silently substitute in the resulting page. > > > > A Custom 404 might be easier, but would have a bit more supporting > > infrastructure at the code end for a big site. > > > > Apologies if this is incorrect, I just may not be thinking > > too clearly today :) > > > > Jason > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >