includes and modrewrite

[mark Bannister]

Newbie here.
Site is on shared server Apache, PHP 4.x
I am using modrewrite currently for some other things but I was
wondering about includes in php files. They don't seem to pass through
..htaccess and modrewrite. Is that correct? I have 3 days experience
with .htaccess and modrewrite so I could well be doing something wrong.

What I was trying to do is use a "fake" directory in all my includes
that modrewrite would rewrite to the correct directory.

Thanks,
Mark B.

[Colin Fine]

mark Bannister wrote:

Newbie here.
Site is on shared server Apache, PHP 4.x
I am using modrewrite currently for some other things but I was
wondering about includes in php files. They don't seem to pass through
.htaccess and modrewrite. Is that correct? I have 3 days experience
with .htaccess and modrewrite so I could well be doing something wrong.

What I was trying to do is use a "fake" directory in all my includes
that modrewrite would rewrite to the correct directory.

Thanks,
Mark B.

I'm not an expert of this area, but as far as I know PHP's 'include'
doesn't go outside PHP to the webserver at all, so it will not invoke
any server features.
The exception is if you use a full URL in the include, but that gives
other problems - if you want to include a PHP file in that way you have
to arrange that the server will serve PHP source (which it doesn't
usually do).

See http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php

Colin