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[Dell Sala]

mod_rewrite seems like a messy business. How about naming your php  
script without a .php extension and just have that be parsed with  
php? Then, whatever path is appending to the script name that is  
requested just acts as a query string/argument.

your php script would be

http://domain.com/mp3handler

and full requests would look like this

http://domain.com/mp3handler/music.mp3

mp3handler would just parse the full request string to find out what  
mp3 was requested

your .htaccess file would be something like this:

<FilesMatch "^mp3hanlder$">
    ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

I've found this to be an effective technique for creating clean urls.

-- Dell


On Dec 15, 2006, at 5:35 PM, Kenneth Downs wrote:

> I'm guessing that this must be a common trick, but googling it did  
> not come up with an example that I could figure out.
>
> Basically I'd like to put a link to what looks like an MP3 file,  
> but which is redirected to a script.  The script determines if the  
> person is subscribed to that particular issue. If they are, it does  
> a readfile(), otherwise it does not.
>
> I cannot do a simple force of mp3 files to be handled by PHP, or at  
> least I don't want to, because then I would need a file for every  
> mp3, and as the list comes out of a database, this would be  
> troublesome.
>
> The basic problem I have is, not being familiar with mod_rewrite, I  
> find myself in the endless maze that everybody warns you about,  
> fiddling around and smashing fists on the table wondering why the  
> simplest !)(#(*#@ expression won't work.
>
> What I'm looking for is for a URL like this:
>
> http://www.example.com/path/path/somefile.mp3
>
> to become:
>
> http://www.example.com/path/path/index.php? 
> gp_page=media&file=somefile.mp3
>
> Can anybody give me a clue here?  Thanks.
> <ken.vcf>
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