How to hide 404 not found?

mark103

Hi guys,

I did a little research, but I cannot be able to find the answer. So I need your help. How I could hide the 404 not found that if the server is down or if the file get deleted?

Here it is the php that I am using:

<?php
	require_once('auth.php');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Member Index</title>
<link href="loginmodule.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome <?php echo $_SESSION['SESS_FIRST_NAME'];?></h1>
Home | <a href="home.php">My Account</a> | <a href="logout.php">Logout</a>
?>

If it impossible to hide the 404 not found error, then I have got another question: how could I hide the actual url in the address bar by using the script on above?

Hope you can help!

Thanks,
Mark

laserlight

You cannot do anything other than get (or push the administrator to get) the server back up if it is down. But for a file that has been deleted, or simply never existed in the first place, the solution is to configure your web server. For example, read the Apache 2.2 documentation on Custom Error Responses. PHP would only come into play if the file served in response to an error involves a PHP script.

neoxhawk

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<?php
//get data
$button = $GET['submit'];
$search = $GET['search'];

if (!$button);
echo "You didn't sumbit a keyword";
else
{
if (strlen ($search)<=2)
echo "search term to short.";
else
{
echo "you searched for <B>$search</B> <hr size='1'>";
}
}

dagon

neoxhawk, please start your own thread not post on an unrelated one.