HELP! 404 Error page with previous url displayed

disto

08-23-2006, 12:39 PM

hi im creating a 404 error page and i want the url to be displayed.

i did some searching around and found http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6032&goto=nextoldest

i followed this and created the file 404.php

<html>
<body vLink=#ff0000 aLink=#ff0000 link=#ff0000 bgColor=#ffffff>
404 Error
 sorry an error has occoured, we have automatically be notified of this error.
<?php $badurl = "http://" . $SERVER_NAME . $REDIRECT_URL;
$message = "A bad link to $badurl was encountered on $HTTP_REFERER.";
echo $message; ?>
 
<a href="#" onClick="history.back()">go back</a>
</body>
</html>

using the .htaccess file

ErrorDocument 500 /files/500.html
ErrorDocument 404 /files/404.php
ErrorDocument 401 /files/401.html
ErrorDocument 403 /files/403.html

when the page is displayed it shows
404 Error

sorry an error has occoured, we have automatically be notified of this error. A bad link to http://URL.../files/404.php was encountered on http://URL.../link.html.

go back

so its displaying the URL that contains the error but not which URL the link was to. can anyone help? whats wrong with the $REDIRECT_URL

eak

08-23-2006, 02:45 PM

try these other globals.

$_SERVER['REDIRECT_UNIQUE_ID']
$_SERVER['REDIRECT_SCRIPT_URL']
$_SERVER['REDIRECT_SCRIPT_URI']
$_SERVER['REDIRECT_SITE_ROOT']
$_SERVER['REDIRECT_SITE_HTMLROOT']
$_SERVER['REDIRECT_SITE_CGIROOT']
$_SERVER['REDIRECT_STATUS']
$_SERVER['REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING']
$_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL']

disto

08-23-2006, 11:38 PM

could you give and example of one of the possiblities

where do i need to place it?
would it be (for the $_SERVER['REDIRECT_UNIQUE_ID'])

<?php $badurl = "http://" . $_SERVER['REDIRECT_UNIQUE_ID'];

for instance?

eak

08-27-2006, 12:29 AM

This works for me.

echo "".$_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL']." was not found.";

I have php5.1.2 on my home server.