Catching 404's with PHP

[Anon]

I want to be able to catch 404's with a PHP-file that does something sensible. I can easily get as far as redirecting the error with the .htaccess file, but how do I get the name of the offending URL in the PHP-file I open? Is there a system variable or similar, which contains the original, non-exisiting URL?

Have tried looking everywhere, but to no avail...

Martin

[Anon]

If you're running PHP as a module, you can retrieve the error-causing page name in $REDIRECT_URL. Not sure if this is available if you're CGI or not...

[Anon]

Tried $REDIRECT_URL, $HTTP_REFERER and $REQUEST_URI. None of them will give the right result.

If I type in a known wrong URL or click a broken link I get for the three above:

$REDIRECT_URL: My 404-file itself
$HTTP_REFERER: The last correctly shown page
$REQUEST_URI: My 404-file itself

But where is my offending URL?

Martin

[Anon]

Which web-server are you running?

[Anon]

The server is Apache on Solaris

[Anon]

same problem here 🙁

[Anon]

same prob here too...

[Anon]

To get it working I used $REQUEST_URI.
I think it's worked fine. 😉