Custom Redirect Page

[Sean Pinto]

My hosting company has an automatic redirect page called
/missing/missing.php and I want to log all of the page not founds that
result in a redirection to missing.php. I can't seem to find out how
to get the string that the web user typed to get there. I have
checked $_SERVER['REDIRECT_URI'] but it has /missing/missing.php and
$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] is empty. Does anyone know how to get
"/abcdef" if the user navigated to "http://mydomain.com/abcdef" ? Any
help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Sean

[Ben Gribaudo]

Re: Custom Redirect Page

Hi Sean,

URL of the page that wasn't found:
$_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL']

Query string submitted to the page that wasn't found:
$_SERVER['REDIRECT_QUERY _STRING']

URL that referred the visitor to the page that wasn't found:
$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']

The above probably won't work if your site is configured to *redirect*
requests for non-existent documents to the error page--that is, if it sends
a redirect header to the browser pointing to /missing.php. When the user
visits a "real" error page (vs. a redirected to on error page), they are not
redirected--the error message is displayed at the bad URL. To configure
things as such with Apache, insert:
ErrorDocument 404 /scripts/not_found.php
into .htaccess (assuming your server's config allows that directive in
..htaccess).

Have a great day!

Ben :-)
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"Sean Pinto" <spinto@virtual slo.com> wrote in message
news:a0453bc1.0 407131337.51445 648@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> My hosting company has an automatic redirect page called
> /missing/missing.php and I want to log all of the page not founds that
> result in a redirection to missing.php. I can't seem to find out how
> to get the string that the web user typed to get there. I have
> checked $_SERVER['REDIRECT_URI'] but it has /missing/missing.php and
> $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] is empty. Does anyone know how to get
> "/abcdef" if the user navigated to "http://mydomain.com/abcdef" ? Any
> help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean[/color]

[Brian]

Re: Custom Redirect Page

Sean Pinto wrote:
[color=blue]
> My hosting company has an automatic redirect page called
> /missing/missing.php and I want to log all of the page not founds
> that result in a redirection to missing.php.[/color]

And what status code is returned to the client? It should be 404 for a
not found page.
[color=blue]
> I can't seem to find out how to get the string that the web user
> typed to get there. I have checked $_SERVER['REDIRECT_URI'] but it
> has /missing/missing.php and $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] is empty.
> Does anyone know how to get "/abcdef" if the user navigated to
> "http://mydomain.com/abcdef" ?[/color]

Use the server's mechanism for a customized error document. For
Apache, use

ErrorDocument 404 //missing/missing.php

That will provide users your php "missing" script and the correct 404
status code.

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