Config for a PHP REST web service

Fredric Fredricson <Fredric.Fredricson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:31:06 +0200

Hi all,
I am working on a small REST-based web service that I write in php.

I have a single PHP-script and I want Apache to route all requests to a 

specific location and below to my php script.

This is how I did it:

<LocationMatch "^/pathtomyservice(.*)" >
<Limit GET POST PUT DELETE OPTIONS>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
</Limit>
<LimitExcept GET POST PUT DELETE OPTIONS>
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
</LimitExcept>

    Options -All
    SetHandler MyService
    Action MyService /~myuser/somepath/myscript.php virtual
</LocationMatch>

of course, I had to enable UserDir for myuser.

My problem is: I have no idea what I am doing. It's all 

trial-and-horror. Now it works as expected but somehow it feels a bit 

strange.

I expected to be able to tell Apache that "for this path run that php 

script" and not that the script had to be accessible via http and all 

that "handler" business.

So if somebody more in the know could bless this solution or tell me how 

to really do it would be grateful. Or even point me to the correct 

configuration directives.

/Fredric

PS. I run on a range from 1.3 to 2.2 but the solution will only have to 

work for 2.2 (and newer).

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