Re: mod_rewrite & open_basedir & pear

Hi Stig "Stig S. Bakken" wrote: > > 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. What i had to do, not the best solution though, is to cut out DB class from pear and put it to the directory with my project..... I found that DB calss depend on PEAR.php, PEAR/, System.php,Console/,DB.php.DB/ Thanks for helping me anyway :) Alexei > > - Stig