tried using the she-bang thing like in perl/python? I thought that was
supposed to work.

#!/usr/bin/env python

that works for python, not sure what you'd use for php tho, you'd want to go
to your php executable. Im not anywhere near a web server, so im not sure if
it actually works.

Justin Cook
mailto:jsc at themes.org

----- Original Message -----
From: Austad, Jay <austad at marketwatch.com>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 4:59 PM
Subject: RE: [TCLUG] php files without an extension


> 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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