http://localhost/mydirector/ - echo mydirectory and avoid 404 error on localhost

Question

Hello,

I have the URL http://localhost/mydirector/, I want to echo mydirectory and not have a 404 error. mydirectory does not exist as a directory, but is taken as username. I am using Windows/apache/MySQL,PHP. All this happening on localhost or 127.0.0.1

Thanks Jean

Answer 1

You need to use mod_rewrite so that it internally rewrites the URL to another URL.

For example:

http://localhost/mydirector/

To:

http://localhost/index.php?z=mydirector

Then you can have index.php to read and echo the 'z' parameter value.

There is a lot of information on the net about using mod_rewrite to do this. For example: http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/guide-url-rewriting

Answer 2

if mod_rewrite isn't what you want, have you investigated mod_userdir?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_userdir.html