[UPHPU] URL Rewriting

[Richard K Miller]

On Apr 28, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Mac Newbold wrote:

> Apr 22 at 10:11am, Richard K Miller said:
>
>> I'm not sure you could do *any* URL rewriting without at least a  
>> bare minimum of mod_rewrite.
>
> Sorry to resurrect a thread that ended last week, but I wanted to  
> bring up a method that takes a different approach to it. One  
> benefit, though I don't recommend it, is that it isn't Apache  
> dependent. Even IIS can do it, though it is limited in some ways.
>
> One way to perform an equivalent function (allow nice looking URLs  
> that don't correspond to files Apache could serve directly) without  
> using mod_rewrite is to specify a PHP script as your ErrorDocument  
> in your web server config or .htaccess. (Any web server that will  
> let you choose to run a PHP script on error instead of sending back  
> a 404 and an html page can do this.)
>
> For example, put in your .htaccess or apache config:
>
> ErrorDocument 404 /error.php
>

Great point, Mac. I recall Datawolf (I believe) spoke about this  
technique at a UPHPU meeting a couple years ago. I believe he was even  
using the 404 document to check referring sites and notify them  
automatically if they had a bad link to his site.