Custom 404 - ASP to PHP

[mschindler]

I have rewritten my site from ASP to PHP. Unfortunately, a lot of my ASP pages were previously indexed in search engines and I've noticed them getting hit, serving up errors in my stats. Does anybody know how to write a custom 404 page in php which automatically redirects URL's ending with the ".asp" extension to the exact same URL, only with a ".php" extension? I'm thinking that it has to be a simple thing, only I'm too new to this to figure it out myself.

[Anon]

In your web server, set the 404 page to be a PHP script. That php script can then take the url and redirect to the right page.

Diego

[mschindler]

Yes, I've figured out that that's what I need to do. What I was hoping for here was some "coding help" to write the script in php. I'm guessing that the script will have to take what is given in the $HTTP_REFERER and replace instances of ".asp" if it is there, with ".php"