A much better way of doing this would be use to mod_rewrite..... an apache
module that basically applies regular expressions to urls
This would give you a way of avoiding passing variable but without resorting
to the work around of 404
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sondra Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 6:27 PM
Subject: [PHP] Whacky WGET issue...
> Hello everyone!
>
> Crazy question:
>
> I've created a little script that reads in .txt files and, with the
> help of phplib templates, matches them up with a collection of
> templates and spits out the beautiful html page.
>
> In order to avoid sending variables through the URL I've stolen this
> bizarre workaround where, when you call
> http://www.mysite.com/somepage.html for example, the apache
> configuration realizes it's a 404 and redirects all 404s through my
> cms script. Then my script looks for
> http://www.mysite.com/somepage.txt and does the rest.
>
> This works beautifully, and my plan was to have a "dev" environment
> that runs against the little CMS system and then wget the whole site
> periodically for the live server (so, the live site actually *is* a
> collection of flat pages).
>
> Beautiful plan, but it turns out that WGET doesn't see the apache
> configuration change that runs all 404s through my CMS script. It
> sees a 404 and tells me its a 404 and then goes back to its coffee
> break, you know?
>
> Anyone else tried this workaround before with similar results?
> Anyone else have a better workaround? Bueller?
>
> Anyway, best,
> Sondra
>
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