[SOLVED] Apache to PHP

[DataRater]

I'm using apache to map something like

 

www.something.com/firstpage/ to index.php in the top web directory.

I also want to map

www.something.com/secondpage/ to index.php

 

inside index.php I want to be able to say

 

if www.something.com/firstpage/ then include firstpage.php

or

if www.something.com/secondpage/ then include secondpage.php

 

Have you any idea how I can find the original request i.e. www.something.com/firstpage/ from inside index.php?

 

 

 

[elflacodepr]

so you mean you want to include the link to www.something.com/firstpage/ in www.something.com/secondpage/ and viceversa?

[DataRater]

NO. I just want to know from inside index.php what the originating URL was.

[DataRater]

I think I need a get_uri class. Any ideas?

[sbunse]

hi,

i'm not sure, but this info could be available as $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], if not and you're using mod_rewrite for your redirect, you could pass the originating url as query parameter to index.php.

 

hope this helps,

 

  stefan

[DataRater]

Hi stefan,

 

Yeah those are a good ideas. Is $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] the URI before the rewite or after? I'll have to investigate that one.

[wildteen88]

Hi stefan,

 

Yeah those are a good ideas. Is $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] the URI before the rewite or after? I'll have to investigate that one.

It is after the rewrite.

 

Can you show me your rewrite rules.

[sbunse]

Hi DataRater,

ok, if $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] is after the rewrite i would suggest passing the url as query parameter. A common pattern (to me, at least) is a rewrite config like this in an .htaccess file:

 

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]

</IfModule>

 

The two conditions check if there is a physical file or directory matching the url, if so no rewrite takes place, otherwise the request is rewritten to index.php and the original request path is passed as get parameter 'url' to index.php.

 

Cheers,

 

  Stefan

[DataRater]

Stefan,

 

Excellent.

 

Thanks. :-)