[RESOLVED] $_server['redirect_url'];

[BenW]

Hello,

I have made a .htaccsess file with the following in it:

ErrorDocument 404 /status/status.php

And the status.php has the code:

$url = $_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'];

Now I read: In the folder on the server if I make up a filename it would redirect to the status.php

Now if i make up a file name (eg. fake.php) it redirects to the status.php fine but the $url variable comes up with status.php and not the fake.php

Anything I am doing wrong??

Thanks
BW

[bpat1434]

Perhaps it should be $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] instead...

[bradgrafelman]

Here's my setup:

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

Now if I trigger a 404, say by going to http://localhost/this_file_doesnt_exist.php?foo=bar then I have these variables available in the $_SERVER superglobal:

    [REDIRECT_ERROR_NOTES] => File does not exist: c:/program files/apache group/apache/htdocs/this_file_doesnt_exist.php
    [REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING] => foo=bar
    [REDIRECT_REQUEST_METHOD] => GET
    [REDIRECT_STATUS] => 404
    [REDIRECT_URL] => /this_file_doesnt_exist.php
    [REQUEST_URI] => /this_file_doesnt_exist.php?foo=bar

Now, you may not have all of these (or any) if you're not running PHP as an ISAPI module with Apache.

At any rate, you should always have the REQUEST_URI index, as bpat pointed out, so try that if all else fails.

[BenW]

Thankyou so much, the request_uri worked perfectly!