Re: mod_rewrite & open_basedir & pear

On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 11:11, Alexei Tenitski wrote: > Hi Stig > > > > mod_rewrite is used to _hide_ urls from users and to _extend_ url with > > > additional params. > > > > Is there anything stopping you from doing the mod_rewrite things in PHP > > with a 404 error handler? :-) > > Well... I'm working on a system which would allow resellers > provide various our services as their own at their own prices. > > Fully customized by reseller process where clients order services. > > There's an account generated for each reseller. > > http://11.22.33.44/~some_reseller/ > > Subfolder with reseller private files is > kept there (eg pictures they use on their pages or css files). > > In addition to it there's a .htaccess which redirects all requests > (with an appended param &reseller_id=12345) which are not > requests for the files in a "includes" folder to the directory > on the server where main process remain. > > This system allows me to do whatever i want to with the process, > change filenames, add features without any need to update anything > in reseller account directories. > > Can i be that flexible with a rewrite by php?.. > > Say, I can't do header('Location ...') cause it will > reveal that the process is reselling which is not acceptable... > > Do you know ways to implement above by php only? One technique is to have an empty document root and only a 404 handler (you need to have "Options -Indexes" and a 403 handler to catch accesses to "/"). The 404 handler just examines the URL and either does a readfile() (plus content-type and last-modified headers) from your internal document root, or a virtual() call to route the call to somewhere else served by Apache. I've used this with great success to implement an interface to a CMS providing plain URLs (ala /news/2002052801.html) instead of query-style URLs (ala /news.php?id=2002052801). - Stig