PHP "fake" directories

[Anon]

On many PHP installations I have used, typing:

http://www.blah.net/script.php/foo/bar/baz

would simply run "script.php".

I did a Linux installation of my own today, Apache 1.3.20 and PHP4.0.6 as a module. Unfortunately, I can't get it to behave as above, even though PHP works correctly otherwise.

If I try the above, I get an HTTP Forbidden error: "You do not have permission to view /script.php/foo/bar/baz".

What do I need to do to get this "fake URI" behaviour back? You'll be my hero if you can help. =)

Gabe

[Anon]

In you httpd.conf file (Apache Config File) you will find the following:

#

DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML

directory index. Separate multiple entries with spaces.

#
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.php3
</IfModule>

Simply add script.php to the DirectoryIndex line. I think they are in order of execution, ie in the following example if index.html & index.php both exist in a folder, index.html will be executed.

Hope that helps.