Question

I have a domain name and on FTP is the only one file – index.php. In this file are just information about my project – simple HTML.

Now I would need to set some information to URL, like

http://mywebsite.com/some-words

If in URL address would be this string, I need to get the string (some-words) and take a look at the array, if this string is there and based on that print some text.

But my problem is, that if I set up the address

http://mywebsite.com/some-words

to the browser, I’ll got the 404 error.

How can I avoid this error message?

Answer 1

The problem is that you only have a file at /index.php, you don’t have anything at /some-words. Without any modification to the webserver, it had no way to know that you want a request against /some-words to be processed by /index.php. Thus, you get a 404 error since the server can’t find anything at /some-words