Apache Multiview Support Added
September 29th, 2005
I just added support for Multiview - you can access blog entries via /index.php/Object-Alias. This is the same as the old URLs which used to be index.php?s=Object-Alias. This was mainly to produce cleaner URLs, improve search engine indexing, and produce better statistics in AWStats 
This script is designed to be used with mod_rewrite/Multiview. There are no hacks - all you do is change the object url in the configuration file from http://cow.neondragon.net/?s=%s to http://cow.neondragon.net/index.php/%s. The template engine generates all the URLs used via a makeLink() function.
The code on the server which takes the index.php/Object-Alias and converts it into a more sane form looks a bit like this:
<?php
/* Apache Option Multiview */
$multiviewBase = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'].“/”;
if (!isset($_GET['s']) && substr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 0, strlen($multiviewBase)) == $multiviewBase) {
$_GET['s'] = substr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], strlen($multiviewBase));
}
?>
Edit 29/9 22:25: Fixed broken PHP.
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Interesting, can /index/ also be used?
It seems not to work. I would have thought that Apache Content Negotation would have allowed /index to show /index.php though. Not sure if this is because of the php file extension or because of the server configuration.
On my local server, it works. It is really strange that it doesn’t allow it here.
Doesn’t work on my localhost - must be a configuration thing.