On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 5:31 AM, Dan Egli <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey folks, something I've been wondering. I'm sure we're all used to seeing > URLS that end in things like /file.php?req=12 or similiar. That's easy. But > lately I've seen an increasing number of pages that seem to put the php > page as a directory and the request as a separate file. A good example was > the ATA wiki page on kernel.org. That read > ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase. > > I could easily make a page that would pull up content by something like > index.php?section=ATA_Secure_Erase, but how on earth do you setup Apache to > recognise in this URL that index.php is not a directory and > ATA_Secure_Erase not a separate file? Or is that exactly what happened and > they are simply calling the directory index.php for whatever reason? This > is something that's been bugging me for a while. The way I understand > things, you'd need to configure Apache to send the index.php page, and then > you need to have some kind of IF check to see if ATA_Secure_Erase was set. > But at the same time, I'd wonder WHAT variable to check. Would it be > something like $_GET["ATA_Secure_Erase"]? Or would it be > $_GET["<something>"] == "ATA_Secure_Erase" or similiar? > One way to do this is to use mod_rewrite[1] with Apache to translate URLs from /index.php/PAGE_NAME to /index.php?section=PAGE_NAME. Since you pointed to a MediaWiki site as your example, you may be interested in the MediaWiki manual section that describes how to setup the redirects[2]. [1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache -- Byron Clark /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
