Pragmatic Forums | No URL Segment support

Oct 3, 2008 3:23pm

Ty (tzmedia) 8 posts

HI Ryan, and other eescreencast viewers.
I’m new and considering purchase, I just found out my host checks out with the wizard but they don’t offer URL Segment support, maybe I should check with my host.
Is URL segment support the same thing as rewriting, like for an IIS host maybe it would be ISAPI rewrite? I’ll let you know what my host informs me on this…

Anyways my real question is without URL segment support, which screencasts or actual site features will it effect, or can I live without it. do the screencasts explain a work around, maybe I shouldn’t even worry about it just yet, and get started anyways?
Thanks.

Oct 3, 2008 3:29pm

Ty (tzmedia) 8 posts

I also wanted to add, I know I’m stuck with Force Query strings on if that means anything, and currently I don’t have any URL rewrite support with my IIS/PHP 5+ host, if that means anything regarding segments.
thanks again.

Oct 3, 2008 4:04pm

Ty (tzmedia) 8 posts

Sorry about replying to my own topic, I wish the discussion had an edit ability:
I found in the EE forums where Ryan said running with Force Query strings was ok.
“François, you can follow the screencasts using your setup and the “Force URL Query Strings” preference enabled.”
So will it change any of the code, or will there be features that will not work, I’m OK with Query Strings otherwise not a problem.

Oct 3, 2008 4:55pm

Ryan Irelan 87 posts

Hi,

You can proceed without url_segment. I think you’ll find that there will be parts of the screencasts that you’ll need to workaround, but otherwise the techniques taught are valid, even without the url segment support.

Just for extra reading, be sure to check out the EE forums that cover this topic:

http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/56354/

http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/41070/ (linked to from the previous thread)

Oct 3, 2008 5:42pm

Ty (tzmedia) 8 posts

I checked the forums before hand, not knowing exactly what to look for both your links mention .htaccess, a window’s iis server really doesn’t support .htaccess either.
Are url segment variables used in the code, is path_info the same thing. If it’s just a case of hard coding a path rather than a variable, that shouldn’t be too bad?

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Oct 3, 2008 3:23pm Ty (tzmedia) 8 posts	HI Ryan, and other eescreencast viewers. I’m new and considering purchase, I just found out my host checks out with the wizard but they don’t offer URL Segment support, maybe I should check with my host. Is URL segment support the same thing as rewriting, like for an IIS host maybe it would be ISAPI rewrite? I’ll let you know what my host informs me on this… Anyways my real question is without URL segment support, which screencasts or actual site features will it effect, or can I live without it. do the screencasts explain a work around, maybe I shouldn’t even worry about it just yet, and get started anyways? Thanks.

Oct 3, 2008 3:29pm Ty (tzmedia) 8 posts	I also wanted to add, I know I’m stuck with Force Query strings on if that means anything, and currently I don’t have any URL rewrite support with my IIS/PHP 5+ host, if that means anything regarding segments. thanks again.

Oct 3, 2008 4:04pm Ty (tzmedia) 8 posts	Sorry about replying to my own topic, I wish the discussion had an edit ability: I found in the EE forums where Ryan said running with Force Query strings was ok. “François, you can follow the screencasts using your setup and the “Force URL Query Strings” preference enabled.” So will it change any of the code, or will there be features that will not work, I’m OK with Query Strings otherwise not a problem.

Oct 3, 2008 4:55pm Ryan Irelan 87 posts	Hi, You can proceed without url_segment. I think you’ll find that there will be parts of the screencasts that you’ll need to workaround, but otherwise the techniques taught are valid, even without the url segment support. Just for extra reading, be sure to check out the EE forums that cover this topic: http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/56354/ http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/41070/ (linked to from the previous thread)

Oct 3, 2008 5:42pm Ty (tzmedia) 8 posts	I checked the forums before hand, not knowing exactly what to look for both your links mention .htaccess, a window’s iis server really doesn’t support .htaccess either. Are url segment variables used in the code, is path_info the same thing. If it’s just a case of hard coding a path rather than a variable, that shouldn’t be too bad?