Nope, can't use a redirect.  It's not a web browser that hits this URL
usually, it's another piece of software and it doesn't know what to do with
a redirect.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nate Carlson [mailto:natecars at real-time.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 4:42 PM
> To: 'tclug-list at mn-linux.org'
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] php files without an extension
> 
> 
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Austad, Jay wrote:
> > Say I have a file called generator.php.  To hit this and 
> pass arguments to
> > it, the URL looks something like:
> > http://www.something.com/generator.php?file=something.txt
> >
> > I want to rename generator.php to just "generator" and have 
> apache parse it
> > as a PHP file.  So when I hit it, it will look something like:
> > http://www.something.com/generator?file=something.txt
> >
> > The reason being, I'm trying to replace a badly written CGI 
> with this nice
> > graceful PHP script, but there are too many links to change 
> other places to
> > have the URL be different.
> 
> Not sure how to do that, but could you set up the web server with a
> redirect to make that work?
> 
> eg..
> 
> Redirect /generator /generator.php
> 
> ..just throwing out ideas.  :)
> 
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