PHP PathInfo versus Mod Rewrite.

jelwell

Joined: 2003-05-29
Posts: 115
Posted: Fri, 2006-03-31 06:07

Can anyone list the benefits & drawbacks of the two implementations of the rewrite module?

PHP PathInfo versus Apache's modrewrite. Might as well add info about the third ISAPI_Rewrite - but I assume that's a feature used for IIS servers only so I doubt those people even have the option of the other 2 options.

I'd like to hear everything anyone knows including information about google/search engine issues. I'm vaguely aware that Google doesn't like redirects - but I don't think I either cause any problems.

I just upgraded to Gallery 2.1 and I picked mod_rewrite, because that's what I've always used. Any reason to switch?

Thanks,
Joseph Elwell.

 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Sat, 2006-04-08 09:20

stick with mod_rewrite, it's better.
- faster
- more features
- more flexible
- google doesn't really care about redirects in the case of what we do in g2.