URLs without ? on Windows

[lth2h]

I've been passing variables by using /val1/val2 at the end of the url and then using $PATH_INFO to get the values.

The problem is this all worked fine on Linux w/ Apache but when I put a copy of the site on my Win98 (with PWS) laptop I'm told

Warning: Failed opening 'C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\copy\webv0.03\test.php\42\' for inclusion (include_path='') in Unknown on line 0

There is strong pressure to move to a Win server if this will have the same problem on IIS.

Thanks

[mp96brbj]

I'm not sure why that generated an error, but you might want to try passing variables with "normal" query strings:

index.php?var1=val1&var2=val2

In case you didn't know, this will make PHP automatically create the variables:
$var1='val1';
$var2='val2';
...so you wouldn't have to fiddle with $PATH_INFO.

[lth2h]

The point of passing variables without the ? in the URL is for search engines to index the site. As soon as a search engine sees a ? it stops, but with / the search engine keeps going and going and going...

[mp96brbj]

Do you mean that it is possible to fool search engines into following links in a database-generated site where page content is defined by query strings? Wow, great!

[lth2h]

Yeah, Check out http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20000526.php3