PATH_INFO rewrite

Davide Bianchi <davideyeahsure.RemoveThis@onlyforfun.net> wrote in message news:<2jvphnF169gnnU4.RemoveThis@uni-berlin.de>...
 > echo "ErrorDocument 404 /faq/index.php?PATH_INFO=general" > htdocs/faq/.htaccess

Hello,

this is clever but doesnt solve my problem. I need to pass
a parameter to index.php not a hardcoded constant, ie:

i want the call the url:

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.mysite.com/faq/XXXXX" target="_blank">http://www.mysite.com/faq/XXXXX</a>

transformed to

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.mysite.com/faq/index.php/XXXXX" target="_blank">http://www.mysite.com/faq/index.php/XXXXX</a> (PATH_INFO)

if and only if the file:

htdocs/faq/XXXXX/index.html

does not exist.


Is this possible ? Thanks in advance for any help

George Moschovitis
Navel Ltd

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George Moschovitis <gm DeleteThis @navel.gr> wrote:
 > this is clever but doesnt solve my problem. I need to pass
 > a parameter to index.php not a hardcoded constant, ie:

Then remove the hardcoded constant and from your php file check
the REQUESTED_URI environment variable. It should do it.

Davide

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 > Then remove the hardcoded constant and from your php file check
 > the REQUESTED_URI environment variable. It should do it.

ehm i feel stupid, in retrospect it seems so obvious.
Thank you!

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Davide Bianchi wrote:

 > George Moschovitis <gm.TakeThisOut@navel.gr> wrote:
 >
  >>lets say a browser requests the following url:
  >>http://www.mysite.com/faq/general
  >>I want the following:
  >>if the file htdocs/faq/general/index.html _exists_ then
  >>apache should return it
  >>otherwise apache should call the file
  >>htdocs/faq/index.php
  >>and pass PATH_INFO = general
 >
 > echo "ErrorDocument 404 /faq/index.php?PATH_INFO=general" > htdocs/faq/.htaccess

Do you really want to send a 404 Error to the search engine?? Try
something along the lines of:

# check if request is for an existing directory,
# if it is, let the request go through
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} -d
RewriteRule .* [PT]

# if it's not an existing directory
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/(.*)/?$ $1/index.php?PATH_INFO=$2 [L,NS]

This isn't tested, but it should get you in the right direction...

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Justin Koivisto wrote:

 > Davide Bianchi wrote:
 >
  >> George Moschovitis <gm RemoveThis @navel.gr> wrote:
  >>
   >>> lets say a browser requests the following url:
<font color=brown>   >>> <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.mysite.com/faq/general</font" target="_blank">http://www.mysite.com/faq/general</font</a>>
   >>> I want the following:
   >>> if the file htdocs/faq/general/index.html _exists_ then
   >>> apache should return it
   >>> otherwise apache should call the file
   >>> htdocs/faq/index.php
   >>> and pass PATH_INFO = general
  >>
  >>
  >> echo "ErrorDocument 404 /faq/index.php?PATH_INFO=general" >
  >> htdocs/faq/.htaccess
 >
 >
 > Do you really want to send a 404 Error to the search engine?? Try
 > something along the lines of:
 >
 > # check if request is for an existing directory,
 > # if it is, let the request go through
 > RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} -d
 > RewriteRule .* [PT]
 >
 > # if it's not an existing directory
 > RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/(.*)/?$ $1/index.php?PATH_INFO=$2 [L,NS]
 >
 > This isn't tested, but it should get you in the right direction...
 >

Also note that the data will be in $_GET['PATH_INFO'] NOT
$_SERVER['PATH_INFO']

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