htaccess, to catch all possible 404 requests, without ErrorDocument directive.

[abduraooft]

Hi friends,

I've been trying to make a model/view structure for a website (or the aedrin's method ), so my root directory structure is

 
 model/
 view/
 common/
 classes/
 css/
 downloads/
 images/
 javascript/
 
 index.php
 .htaccess

I've

RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)(/*)([^/\.]*)$ index.php?page=$1&rest=$3 [L]

in my htaccess, which will convert all links like /about, /contact to ?page=about, ?page=contact and so on.

And my index.php contains

PHP Code:

$page=trim($_GET['page']);
if($page=="" || $page=="index.php")
    $page='home';
$general_pages=array("home","about","contact","contact_webmaster");

if(!in_array($page,$general_pages))
    $page="404";


include("model/{$page}.php");
include("common/header.php");
include("common/nav.php");
@include("view/{$page}.php");
include("common/footer.php"); 


The above code also works for /download/file1 to download a file named file1 (I've the required code in /model/download.php, $file=$_GET['rest']; .........)

Now, this setup works fine for all /blah-blah type links, which will show a text in the /view/404.php

<p> Sorry, the requested page is not found in site. In case, if you have followed a valid link,
please <a href="/contact_webmaster/page=blah-blah&rest=">let know the Majlis webmaster</a>.
</p>

and thus I can catch the requested url in my contact_webmaster form.

Now my question are

1. Can I catch requests (by modifying htaccess) like /about.php, /blah.blah etc.(currently showing an apache 404 error) in my index.php and pass through the rest of codes?
2. How can I restrict request like /model/about.php, /view/about.php etc. which is currently displaying a php error or some html with no styles

Hope my questions are clear.
After all sorry for this huge post and thank you for reading the same (I've no other way to explain)

regards,
raoof.

[abduraooft]

Can I catch everything after my domain name to a variable?
Something like

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

?

Unfortunately the above one is not working :-(
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

thanks.

[abduraooft]

120 views... no reply :-(
I must be doing very stupid . Hope my questions were clear.

For the time being when I added

ErrorDocument 404 /view/404.php

I could manage to show a page with no style and a link to the contact_webmaster page for requests like /blah.blah

And when I added

RewriteRule ^(model|view|classes)/(.*)$ index.php?page=$2 [L]

to the above, I think, my problem is solved for about 90% (rest 10 for unidentified problems and for the inability to track the requested page in some cases)

[abduraooft]

Hmm.. this thread is going to be an addition to my other thread (101 ways to post....)

OK, now a different question..
Can I simplify

RewriteRule ^tax_exemption$ /view/tax_exemption.php  
RewriteRule ^staff_details$ /view/staff_details.php 
RewriteRule ^affiliation_details$ /view/affiliation_details.php 
RewriteRule ^map_location$ /view/map_location.php

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !tax_exemption
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !staff_details
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !affiliation_details
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !map_location
RewriteRule ^(model|view|classes)/(.*)$ index.php?page=$1&rest=$2

The idea is I've some pages which are decided to open as popups. So they don't have no common header/footer/nav blocks like other pages have. So I just placed them inside the view/ folder with full document structures.

I'd already restricted access to all files inside this directory via direct urls, but I need to allow this specific cases.

The above rules work as desired, but can I simplify this?
Any help would be much appreciated.

thanks