php & apache to work as one...

[octane]

Web Development or Web Scripting? Who knows.

Anyway, I have a puzzle: I've set up a front-end to my G4 so that when my clients come along, they can see work in progress without being able to wander around and get into all of the nooks & crannies.

At the minute though, if someone knows the path they want, they can step over the php index page and break out of the front-end -- needless to say I want to stop this kind of skullduggery from happening.

How do I intercept a url on my G4 and have it re-directed to the index page on the root as a name / value pair?

I can't show you the actual site right now [for various reasons] so don't ask.

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

 

[Pengu]

You could turn off directory indexing so they HAVE to know the exact path right to the filename.

 

[octane]

Let's pretend that I don't know how to do that .. OK, let's not pretend, because I _don't_ know how to do that.

How do I do that?..

 

[Captain Code]

Try mod_rewrite to rewrite the URLs you want
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html

It's pretty complicated but hopefully you can figure it out
Never tried it myself because I have never needed it so I can't help out with any commands to use, but this would be what you want.