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. :) > > > > -- > > Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 > > http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list