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Hi Ben,

Have tried it that way but it tried to find a page named /sam and when
it doesn't find it it returns a 404 instead of loading index.php,
hence why I hacked the 404 page.

The /user/sam works as there's a page called /user, I guess there
might be a way to force the default page to always load insead of
returning the 404.


Rgds
Sam




On 1/3/08, Ben Butterfield <Ben.butterfield at propellondon.com> wrote:
> Not sure about the mod rewrite stuff, but if you have managed to get
> foo.com/user/sam to pass the username variable to user.php, couldn't you
> just pass the username variable to index.php and then handle
> appropriately?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Machin [mailto:sam at bs8.org.uk]
> Sent: 03 January 2008 13:16
> To: underscore at under-score.org.uk
> Subject: [_] Any Apache PHP Wizards?
>
> Hi _
>
> I'm trying to build a site/service and I want to be able to have
> usernames ulrs, e.g. http://foo.com/sam
>
> I've worked out how to pass parameters as slashes in the URL eg
> foo.com/user/sam where user is a php script but I'd like to do it on
> the top level.
>
> Currently I've defined a custom 404 page in .htaccess and I'm using
> the $_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'] variable to get the username.
>
> However I'm rather aware that hacking the 404 isn't really an ideal
> solution, anybody know how to do it properly?
>
> FYI I'm running apache1.3 on a MacOSX box and I've got root access.
>
> Rgds
> Sam
>
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