Search engine friendly sites

Anon

Been looking at the article about making php based sites indexable by search engines: http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim19990117.php3

It says that by adding a new section to your access.conf (or httpd.conf as i'm running apache 1.3.12)

<Location /local>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php3
</Location>

Then any requests under www.somehost.com/local/ will call a script.
I've got two questions:

1) What will the script be called and where will it reside?
2) Is the specified location (from the httpd.conf) the path relative to the server or the web site?

In my case i want a url request such as:
www.somehost.com/dev/123/345/
to parse out two variables a=123 and b=345 to the file /dev/index.php

Thanks for your help,
Tom.

Anon

1) in his example, the template is called local so I assume that you would call the template whatever you are using in your apache Location Directive ie:

<Location /stats>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php3
</Location>

I would save a file called stats in my Document Root directory.

2) relative to the web server

hope that helps!

Anon

Doh!!

I was doing everything correctly- exept i thought that the folder specified in the <Location /folder> tag had to actually be a real folder- hence my problem of trying to create a script file with the same name as the folder in the same directory-doh!

Oh well works great now ;-)

Anon

All

At the bottom of this artical there woz a message posted surgesting that this sort of thing can be done in IIS.

Can anybody shed any light on the subject?

Thanks in advance

Ian