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Read up about mod user_dir and upgrade your apache!!!!!!!

2.2 is the current version.

Ta

Andy

On Jan 3, 2008 8:16 AM, Sam Machin <sam at bs8.org.uk> wrote:
> 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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