Apache actually works this way by default. There's no need to mess with
mod_rewrite. Here's a simple test:
http://greybox.justinhileman.info/test.phps
Check out:
http://greybox.justinhileman.info/test.php
REQUEST_URI: /test.php
SCRIPT_NAME: /test.php
PATH_INFO:
Versus:
http://greybox.justinhileman.info/test.php/foo/bar
REQUEST_URI: /test.php/foo/bar
SCRIPT_NAME: /test.php
PATH_INFO: /foo/bar
Several newer PHP frameworks (Symfony2, Silex, and friends) use this style
of URL for their default fallback "clean URLs" if you don't have
mod_rewrite configured.
--justin
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Dan Egli <ddavide...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey folks, something I've been wondering. I'm sure we're all used to seeing
> URLS that end in things like /file.php?req=12 or similiar. That's easy. But
> lately I've seen an increasing number of pages that seem to put the php
> page as a directory and the request as a separate file. A good example was
> the ATA wiki page on kernel.org. That read
> ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase.
>
>
>
> I could easily make a page that would pull up content by something like
> index.php?section=ATA_Secure_Erase, but how on earth do you setup Apache to
> recognise in this URL that index.php is not a directory and
> ATA_Secure_Erase not a separate file? Or is that exactly what happened and
> they are simply calling the directory index.php for whatever reason? This
> is something that's been bugging me for a while. The way I understand
> things, you'd need to configure Apache to send the index.php page, and then
> you need to have some kind of IF check to see if ATA_Secure_Erase was set.
> But at the same time, I'd wonder WHAT variable to check. Would it be
> something like $_GET["ATA_Secure_Erase"]? Or would it be
> $_GET["<something>"] == "ATA_Secure_Erase" or similiar?
>
>
>
> Thanks for the tips on this. Like I said, it's been bugging me for a while.
>
>
> --- Dan
>
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