使用地址栏内容重定向html页面

Question

I'm looking to achieve similar functionality on my site as facebook does for its pages section. Basically I want users to be able to navigate to:

www.mysite.com/school123

Then behind the scenes I would be able to locate 'school123' using URL with PHP, then I can find the correct path in the database and redirect to the correct path (example: www.mysite.com/pages/schools/school123/index.php ). Problem is as the page doesn't exist I get a 404 error.

My question is should I look at modifying the 404 page to do the DB lookup & redirect my page or is there a better way of doing this?

Thank you in advance

Answer 1

Your webserver has to take care of that and pass the arguments to PHP.

If you're using Apache, checkout this:

• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html (docs)
• http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/an-in-depth-guide-to-mod_rewrite-for-apache--net-6708 (tut)

In case of nginx:

• http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#try_files (docs)
• http://floss.zoomquiet.io/data/20110718165935/index.html (tut)
• http://michaelshadle.com/2009/03/19/finally-using-nginxs-try-files-directive (tut)