[thelist] Directory style query strings without using mod_rewrite

[Martin Kuplens-Ewart]

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>> Basically as the subject says, I want to mask query strings as 
>> directory style URL's but cant use mod_rewrite.
>> 
>> Does anyone know how this would be done?
>> Server is PHP/Apache.
>
> You can kind of fake this effect using the $PATH_INFO variable
> which is sent by apache.  If you request the file:
>
> http://www.myserver.com/index.php/url/string/here
>
> the file index.php will have a variable $PATH_INFO available to it
> with the value  "/url/string/here". You can then extract the info
> you need from the string. The downside > is that you still have
> index.php in the url  

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You can get rid of the downside, by setting php to parse any file
without an extension... Not sure how you'd do that... Hehe... That
way you get something like:
http://updates.takingitglobal.org/xml/martin83

Where xml is actually the php file.. Martin83 is the variable that it
sucks out like marrow from a bone. :P

- -martin

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