user friendly urls

kuriamartin

I read the article on phpbuilder.com about building search engine friendly
site. (http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20000526.php3)

local is a php script which prints out something based on the parameters. The parameters are passed like:

mysite.com/local/var1/var2/

the problem is that when I run:
mysite.com/local there no errors,

When I run mysite.com/local/ I am getting an error 404 page not found, it seems when I add any back slashes after the local file the server generates an error.

Please do advice.

devinemke

mysite.com/local will search out a file call "local"
mysite.com/local/ will search out a directory called "local"

your getting a 404 beacuse there is no directory called "local"

kuriamartin

Thanks devinemke,

But here is my setup for .htaccess file
<Files twmshn>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

This forces every request that starts with "/twmshn/" to call a script called "twmshn" in the $DOCUMENT_ROOT of my server.

http://www.mydomain.com/twmshn/ works fine

http://www.mydomain.com/twmshn/twmshn
works fine

http://www.mydomain.com/twmshn/twmshn/
Does not work am getting an error page not found, what can be the problem,

it emerges that anything after twmshn won't work http://www.mydomain.com/twmshn/twmshn/var1/

please advice, do I need mod_write to be running? do I need to do anything in httpd.conf file advice thanks again.

carbonspace

I was having similiar problems and it just depends on how your server is set up and if you have access to the .conf files.

First, try removing the <Files>..</Files> tag from your ForceType directive and see if makes any difference.

Change this...
<Files twmshn>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

to this...
ForceType application/x-httpd-php

This way ANY file without an extension is parsed as PHP

If that still doesn't work, try changing DefaultType in httpd.conf

From this:
DefaultType text/plain

To This:
DefaultType application/x-httpd-php

DefaultType is the default MIME type the server will use for a document if it cannot otherwise determine one, such as from filename extensions.

In Apache 2, there is a thing called AcceptPathInfo that needs to be set on for the directory that is using this method.
AcceptPathInfo On

See if that gets you any closer to your goal...

Cheers,
.dm