Re: mod_rewrite & open_basedir & pear

On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 14:31, Alexei Tenitski wrote: > Hi Stig > > > > > > mod_rewrite is used to _hide_ urls from users and to _extend_ url with > > > > > additional params. > > > 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). > > Virtual looks interesting... > > In the man it's written that > virtual() cannot be used to include a document which is itself a PHP > file. > but I suppose http headers allow include anything and php files as well. > > however, neither readfile nor virtual can pass post variables > to the included script - am i correct? > > Most of the project is based on post requests. > > Virtual: > "virtual -- Perform an Apache sub-request" > > Apache sub requests (when doing subrequest from .htaccess): > "This uses an internal > subrequest to determine the check, so use it with care because > it decreases your servers performance!" > > Do we have the same story with performance decreases when doing virtual? Hm, POST requests don't mix well with these techniques (you'd have to do a full new request through http), so then I guess mod_rewrite is your best bet after all. - Stig