Setting up a PHP Filter for a Directory Alias

Published July 11th, 2009

I wanted to to have a PHP script fire every time someone went to a specific URL which was not a real directory so I came up with a simple Apache configuration to deal with this scenario. Here is an example of such a configuration:

  <Location /start>
    SetHandler start-app
    Action start-app /start.php virtual
  </Location>

When a user visits http://server/start/here  or http://server/start/there etc. the /start.php script found on the document root runs.  In the script, I can then determine what file is requested by taking a peet at the REQUEST_URI and deal with the file request accordingly.

Just thought I share this little tip for you!

Enjoy.

Kabir

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