Pretty URLs without mod_rewrite, without .htaccess

Question

Without a possibility to access .htaccess I find myself in a creative impasse. There is no mod_rewriting for me. Nevertheless, I want to be able to do the n

Answer 1

A quite simple way is to:

• declare a 404 ErrorDocument (e.g. PHP) in .htaccess
• parse the query using $_SERVER and see if it corresponds to any result
• if so replace the HTTP status 404 with status 200 using header() and include index.php

Answer 2

You can also have urls like

http://domain.com/index.php/Blog/Hello_World

out of the box with PHP5. You can then read the URL parameters using

echo $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];

Remember to validate/filter the PATH_INFO and all other request variables before using them in your application.