On Apr 28, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Mac Newbold wrote:
Apr 22 at 10:11am, Richard K Miller said:
I'm not sure you could do *any* URL rewriting without at least a
bare minimum of mod_rewrite.
Sorry to resurrect a thread that ended last week, but I wanted to
bring up a method that takes a different approach to it. One
benefit, though I don't recommend it, is that it isn't Apache
dependent. Even IIS can do it, though it is limited in some ways.
One way to perform an equivalent function (allow nice looking URLs
that don't correspond to files Apache could serve directly) without
using mod_rewrite is to specify a PHP script as your ErrorDocument
in your web server config or .htaccess. (Any web server that will
let you choose to run a PHP script on error instead of sending back
a 404 and an html page can do this.)
For example, put in your .htaccess or apache config:
ErrorDocument 404 /error.php
Great point, Mac. I recall Datawolf (I believe) spoke about this
technique at a UPHPU meeting a couple years ago. I believe he was even
using the 404 document to check referring sites and notify them
automatically if they had a bad link to his site.
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