Hiding PHP

[Rita Harp]

Hi

I want to hide the php files from my urls.

My only idea is to have each file in its own directory as a default.php file.

So instead of this ...

xxx.com/about.php

.... rename about.php to default.php and put in a directory /about ...

xxx.com/about/

This way I dont need to reference any php files explicitly.


Is this the best idea in regards to this issue?

Would appreciate any other ideas/advice!

thanks
Rita

[jack]

Re: Hiding PHP

Rita Harp wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi
>
> I want to hide the php files from my urls.[/color]

Why?
[color=blue]
> Is this the best idea in regards to this issue?[/color]

No. Try apache's mod_rewrite for rewriting URL's into whatever you want.

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[Kevin Thorpe]

Re: Hiding PHP

Rita Harp wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi
>
> I want to hide the php files from my urls.
>
> My only idea is to have each file in its own directory as a default.php file.
>
> So instead of this ...
>
> xxx.com/about.php
>
> ... rename about.php to default.php and put in a directory /about ...
>
> xxx.com/about/
>
> This way I dont need to reference any php files explicitly.
>
>
> Is this the best idea in regards to this issue?
>
> Would appreciate any other ideas/advice![/color]

If you have access to reconfigure the server then tell it to run .html
files through the php module. No-one will know what you've used then.

Just watch sessions though. They sometimes add something like
?PHPSESSID=xxxx xxxxx to the url. You can change what the session id is
called to hide that though.

[Dalibor Karlovic]

Re: Hiding PHP

Rita Harp wrote:
[color=blue]
> I want to hide the php files from my urls.
>
> My only idea is to have each file in its own directory as a default.php
> file.
>
> So instead of this ...
>
> xxx.com/about.php
>
> ... rename about.php to default.php and put in a directory /about ...
>
> xxx.com/about/
>
> This way I dont need to reference any php files explicitly.
>
>
> Is this the best idea in regards to this issue?[/color]

This has been talked about few weeks ago, search the group archive on Google
groups. Keyword: mod_rewrite.

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Loose bits sink chips.

[Ian.H]

Re: Hiding PHP

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 02:37:23 -0700, Rita Harp wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hi
>
> I want to hide the php files from my urls.
>
> My only idea is to have each file in its own directory as a default.php
> file.
>
> So instead of this ...
>
> xxx.com/about.php
>
> ... rename about.php to default.php and put in a directory /about ...
>
> xxx.com/about/[/color]



Apaches' mod_rewrite.



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Ian

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[David Zawislak]

Re: Hiding PHP

Rita Harp wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi
>
> I want to hide the php files from my urls.
>
> My only idea is to have each file in its own directory as a default.php file.
>
> So instead of this ...
>
> xxx.com/about.php
>
> ... rename about.php to default.php and put in a directory /about ...
>
> xxx.com/about/
>
> This way I dont need to reference any php files explicitly.
>
>
> Is this the best idea in regards to this issue?
>
> Would appreciate any other ideas/advice!
>
> thanks
> Rita[/color]
Name the file index.php.
HTH

[Patrick Johnson]

Re: Hiding PHP

rita_harp@hotma il.com (Rita Harp) wrote in message news:<59fcae49. 0309240037.2baf c594@posting.go ogle.com>...[color=blue]
> Hi
>
> I want to hide the php files from my urls.
>
> My only idea is to have each file in its own directory as a default.php file.
>
> So instead of this ...
>
> xxx.com/about.php
>
> ... rename about.php to default.php and put in a directory /about ...
>
> xxx.com/about/
>
> This way I dont need to reference any php files explicitly.
>
>
> Is this the best idea in regards to this issue?
>
> Would appreciate any other ideas/advice!
>
> thanks
> Rita[/color]

If you're using Apache you could edit your .htaccess file or
httpd.conf to use ForceType. Your code would look like this:

<Files about>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

Then you could rename your "about.php" to just "about".

[Tim Tyler]

Re: Hiding PHP

Rita Harp <rita_harp@hotm ail.com> wrote or quoted:
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> I want to hide the php files from my urls.
>
> My only idea is to have each file in its own directory as a default.php file.
>
> So instead of this ...
>
> xxx.com/about.php
>
> ... rename about.php to default.php and put in a directory /about ...
>
> xxx.com/about/
>
> This way I dont need to reference any php files explicitly.
>
> Is this the best idea in regards to this issue?[/color]

Yes - I believe so.

This approach encapsulates the server-side technology in use - allowing
you to switch technologies at a later date without your public interface
changing.
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[Luke Ross]

Re: Hiding PHP

Hi,

Rita Harp wrote:[color=blue]
>
> I want to hide the php files from my urls.
>
> My only idea is to have each file in its own directory as a default.php file.
>
> So instead of this ...
>
> xxx.com/about.php
>
> ... rename about.php to default.php and put in a directory /about ...
>
> xxx.com/about/
>
> This way I dont need to reference any php files explicitly.
>
>
> Is this the best idea in regards to this issue?
>
> Would appreciate any other ideas/advice![/color]

I personally use MultiViews for this, and then the web server tries
various combinations of server-side-language, content-language,
content-type and compression levels. Apache guesses which file is most
likely to be the required one.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/content-negotiation.html

Regards,

Luke