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Asked: 2026-05-12T17:22:15+00:00

I have always used mod_rewrite for creating clean looking URLs, until recently I didn’t

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I have always used mod_rewrite for creating clean looking URLs, until recently I didn’t know there was any other option. A few weeks back someone on here pointed out that exactly the same effect can be achieved using apache PATH_INFO. Thinking about it now, I assume this is what most PHP frameworks do, optionally relying on mod_rewrite purely to remove the index.php bootstrap from the URL.

All leads to a few questions:

  1. Which is the better way of creating a clean and flexible URL structure like:
    /page/var/foo/bar/2?
  2. What are the relative advantages/disadvantages of the two methods?
  3. Which method peforms better in terms of resource usage etc.?

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  1. Editorial Team

    with pathinfo you will always have script name in the url, which looks pretty lame (and not considered valid by some agents). I’d suggest mod_rewrite as primary method with pathinfo or 404 handler as fallbacks.

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