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Anon

Hi,

I created a .htaccess file in a folder on my site. Contents of the .htaccess file:
<Files local>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php3
</Files>

In the same folder I created a script= local
contents:
<?php

$url_array = explode("/",$REQUEST_URI);

$url_firstvar = $url_array[2];
$url_secondvar = $url_array[3];
$url_thirdvar = $url_array[4];

if($url_firstvar){
echo $url_firstvar;
}else if($url_secondvar){
echo $url_secondvar;
}else if($url_thirdvar){
echo $url_thirdvar;
}

However, when I tried something like this:
http://202.192.292.222/dir/local/first/second/third/
it didn't work.. it gave me this error:Fatal error: Unable to open /www/htdocs/dir/local/my/name/is in - on line 0
No input file specified.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Anon

you might want to try something more like this in your .htaccess

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php3

then do your explode("/","$REQUEST_URI")

and the rest of your code in your index.php3

Anon

Do you know if that would work with NT and IIS?

Anon

Havn't tested that but as far as I know the .htaccess is only an apache thing. If you need a serious solution I wouldn't use IIS anyway. Try www.opensa.org. They have an apache compiled for windows with mod_php, open_ssl, mod_ssl. It has an installer and works great under windows. It can also be used with mysql very well. I use it for some development when I'm using windows. It also makes it so that my scripts work the same under development as they do on my server. I've had databse backed sites hosted on nt servers but not any more they crash to much and are to unstable.

With IIS a small error in your code can sometimes take down your webserver. The code doing it was only setting up a cookie. If I don't set my cookie right under apache the script just doesn't work but it doesn't take down the server.

Also I've used php with omnihttpd and the same script does not always execute the same way as it would under apache. Apache is more consistant.

Anon

It's a long story but we have to be on an NT box and our provider only offers IIS on that platform. I'd love to find a workaround to this.

Anon

I ended up in the same situation. After a couple of months and at least one serious server crash, I got a call I wasn't expecting asking to port it to linux and mysql from nt and access.

Anon

Hi,

I've read your messages, and I am very interested in learning how to use .htaccess files.

can you tell me where to find some easy docs about that ?

thanks

Anon

Sorry I don't have to much info for you on this. The bits that I learned are from messing with the .htaccess files on my webserver. This is only for apache.

Anon

sure, I'm interested !
I also work under apache ...

Mark wrote:

Sorry I don't have to much info for you on this. The bits that I learned are from messing with the .htaccess files on my webserver. This is only for apache.