Posted by Justin Koivisto on 11/02/05 01:13

lkrubner@geocities.com wrote:
> Hi. I'm messing around with some stuff in an .htaccess file. Among
> other things, I'd like to send my html files to the PHP parser. I'd
> also like to rewrite the urls using Apache mod_rewrite, so that the
> query string disappears, but the variables are still recorded. For all
> these tasks, I need to know the PHP path. When I run phpinfo, I see
> this listed as the Path:
>
> PATH /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin

The path in php is where the interpreter will look for system commands
when a full path is not provided. For instance:
<?php $contents = `ls -fl`; ?>

PHP will look in each of the PATH directories for the ls command:
/bin/ls
/usr/bin/ls
/sbin/ls
/usr/sbin/ls
/usr/local/bin/ls
/usr/local/sbin/ls

If none of the above are found, then you will get an error...

> I'm not sure how to use that infomation. Do I use all of it? Some of
> it?

None of it?

..htaccess:
-----------
# Send all .html files through the php interpreter
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html


# mod rewrite to rewrite article/2005-10-03.html
# to article/view.php?date=2005-10-03 without
# changing any links in the site
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^article/([^.]+)\.html$ article/view.php?date=$1 [L]
-----------

If you're trying to do something other than that, please explain it better.

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Justin Koivisto, ZCE - justin@koivi.com
http://koivi.com

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