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From: "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com>
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Subject: Re: Using a single php entry file for a whole site.
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:54:42 -0500
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On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:22:18 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
> What I would like to do, is the following.
>
> ALL request to a site are redirected by apache rules to one single file. 
> Let's call it index.php.
> Index.php notes the URL the user wants and looks it up in a database, 
> and if it exists, includes()  the actual PHP file for that page.
> If it doesn't exist, a standard 'sorry, you are looking for a page that 
> doesn't exist' is returned, if possible with the correct error code in 
> the headers?
> The php files themselves apart from index.php do NOT live under the web 
> root. They might in fact live in the database. But that's stage 2.
>
> Is this possible, and if so what if any are the downsides?
>
> It seems to me that a user or robot level scrape of the site would not 
> show anything of its true internal structure. But still show all the 
> paths through it.
>
> What I want to do is have stuff like
>
> http:/mysite.com/news/Dog-Bites-Man
>
> redirect to say
>
> /var/private/newspage.php?id=3041
>
> where there exists a mysql table with a name value pair of
>
> news/Dog-Bites-Man: /var/private/newspage.php?id=3041
> or
> menu/Contact-the-webmaster: /var/private/contact.php?target=webmaster
>
> and so on.
>
> And possible a field for keywords to search the site with.

You describe almost exactly how mediawiki works. Why not start looking
at that to see how it does it?

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