Coding Idea - Need Advice/Help

Dark_Phoenix

Okay, I'll try my best to describe what I'm doing here:

I want to have two identical filesystem arrangements on my host: one at /, which is root, and one at /libraries/, which contains PHP libraries.

When a user requests a page (say, http://blah.com/foo/bar.php), I want this request to be redirected to /process.php or /adminproc.php (if the file starts with admin_). /process.php should do initialization, then look for /libraries/foo/bar.php. If that file is there, then it should included in /process.php at that point. If not, then /process.php should load up /errors/404.php .

Follow me so far? Now, I understand how to do the PHP processing; the part I can't figure out is how to redirect EVERY request in / to /process.php . Can anyone help me out here? I believe mod_rewrite is the answer, but I don't fully understand how to use it.

Kenderized

best way to do that is with apache web server mod_redirect, check out www.apache.org for more info, this module is for exactly what your doing.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Good Luck
AJ

Dark_Phoenix

I don't understand how mod_rewrite works. I tried using

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^/(.*) /process.php

, but it still gives me 404 errors whenever I call it (even though process.php is defined).

Kenderized

mod_rewrite has alot to it, best to dig through the apache.org site and google for more info and samples of how to use, but this is what you are after.