Create a RESTful url for a php script

Question

Hello,

I have a php script on a webserver. Currently, the script is being accessed as http://www.mydomain.com/scriptname.php . Is there a way i can create a user friendly url for accessing this script, something like http://www.mydomain.com/appname, so when this url is called it invokes the php script ?

Please help. Thank You

Answer 1

You want mod_rewrite if you're using Apache HTTPD: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod%5Frewrite.html

If you're using a different web server, it may have something similar (lighttpd has a similar functionality builtin).

Once it's enabled, you can use something like this in your .htaccess file to rewrite appname to scriptname.php

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^appname$ scriptname.php

Answer 2

If you don't have access to your apache/lighttpd configuration file a little hack that may work is putting the script in http://www.mydomain.com/appname/index.php; http://www.mydomain.com/appname/ will then probably work.

Answer 3

Using the default settings of most PHP hosts, you can put the file "index.php" inside your folder http://www.mydomain.com/appname, then fill the index.php with next code:

<?php
header("location: http://www.mydomain.com/scriptname.php");
?>

That would do it.

Answer 4

Your title is "creating a RESTful .." - There's nothing really RESTful about your question, so I'm assuming you don't really know what REST is and how it is used - if your an API programmer, or programmer of clients that consume a RESTful API, you should definitely read up on REST.

Starting points are:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational%5FState%5FTransfer

http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife