path_info in php - how can I use it with index.php?

[leifwessman]

This works fine:

[widget.com...]
($path_info becomes "/arg1")

but when I try this:

[widget.com...]

it doesn't work. (error: Page not found)

How can I make the last example work?

I'm using apache. I would like to be able to write anything as an argument, not only "arg1".

[Robber]

perhaps try [widget.com...]

[irock]

You can do something like this with just a couple of PHP commands and a modified .htaccess...

[widget.com...]

Basically, the .htaccess tells the server that files w/o extension can be treated as a PHP file. Hence, the URL no longer has the file extension part... but it may not be what you wanted.

[leifwessman]

I've already succeded doing

[widget.com...]

but that's not what I want.

I want

[widget.com...]

so that $path_info becomes "/arg1"

Any ideas?

[jatar_k]

With out mod_rewrite I dont think your method is possible. Apache will treat the no extension as if it was a directory, therefore, 404.