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Asked: 2026-05-27T06:28:08+00:00

Is there a way to insert relative URLS in php code such as /forums/(forumID)/

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Is there a way to insert relative URLS in php code such as /forums/(forumID)/ into tags while setting up my site? Then when I am trying to get which forumID the current page is, to get it via a $_GET request without using a template system like Smarty, CakePHP etc or Apache rewrite module? Or is it a huge headache? I just want to be able to not be bound to one web server type (Apache).

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  1. Editorial Team

    … carried on from OP comments.

    These frameworks read the request again in their respective languages to allow the framework to route to specific controllers, but they still need the webserver to be setup to send the request to the framework in the first place.

    • Client requests http://example.com/forums/123
    • After DNS lookup, request hits server at 127.0.0.1:80
    • Webserver (eg Apache) listens for port 80 and accepts request
    • Apache routes request to server-side script

    This is the journey as the web server sees it. It needs to read the request before it even hits the server-side scripting language (PHP/Python/Ruby etc).

    The server-side languages can then re-read the URL once the webserver has hit the front controller as they please.

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