Pretty Urls Without Mod_rewrite, Without .htaccess

Without a possibility to access .htaccess I find myself in a creative impasse. There is no mod_rewriting for me. Nevertheless, I want to be able to do the nice stuff like: http://w

Solution 1:

If you've the permissions to set custom error documents for your server you could use this to redirect 404 requests.

E.g. for Apache (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#errordocument)

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

In the index.php you then can proceed your request by using data from the $_SERVER array.

Solution 2:

You can also have urls like

http://domain.com/index.php/Blog/Hello_World

out of the box with PHP5. You can then read the URL parameters using

echo$_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];

Remember to validate/filter the PATH_INFO and all other request variables before using them in your application.

Solution 3:

I know this question is very old but I didn't see anyone else suggest this possible solution...

You can get very close to what you want just by adding a question mark after the domain part of the URL, ie;

http://www.example.com/?Blog/2009/12/10/
http://www.example.com/?Title_Of_This_Page

Both of the above HTTP requests will now be handled by the same PHP script;

www.example.com/index.php

and in the index.php script, $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] for the two pages above will be respectively;

Blog/2009/12/10/

Title_Of_This_Page

so you can handle them however you want.

Solution 4:

A quite simple way is to:

• declare a 404 ErrorDocument (e.g. PHP) in .htaccess
• parse the query using $_SERVER and see if it corresponds to any result
• if so replace the HTTP status 404 with status 200 using header() and include index.php

Solution 5:

If you omit a trailing slash, Apache will serve the first file [alphabetically] which matches that name, regardless of the extension, at least on the 2 servers I have access to.

I don't know how you might use this to solve your problem, but it may be useful at some point.

For example if http://www.somesite.com/abc.html and http://www.somesite.com/abc.php both exist and http://www.somesite.com/abc is requested, http://www.somesite.com/abc.html will be served.