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Had to figure this out for my needs, thought I would share it with the community.
I wanted to use PHP (or ASP) to process "404 page not found" errors.
I added this JavaScript code to the <head> tag/area of the not_found.html file in the error_docs folder.
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
window.location="http://www.<mysite>/error-handler.php?req="+location.href;
// -->
</script>
Then I created my error-handler.php file (in the httpdocs folder) with this code:
@$page = $_GET['req'];
This loads the URL of the error-ed page into the $page variable (ex. http://www.<mysite>/bad-page.html).
The rest is up to you. I am using it to check a database for "subscriber aliases"
(ex. http://www.<mysite>/person1) that I then use to redirect the visitor to a certain page, also stored in the database.
Obviously it won't work for people with JavaScript turned off, but I tend to go with the 99% solutions.
Hope this helps.
I wanted to use PHP (or ASP) to process "404 page not found" errors.
I added this JavaScript code to the <head> tag/area of the not_found.html file in the error_docs folder.
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
window.location="http://www.<mysite>/error-handler.php?req="+location.href;
// -->
</script>
Then I created my error-handler.php file (in the httpdocs folder) with this code:
@$page = $_GET['req'];
This loads the URL of the error-ed page into the $page variable (ex. http://www.<mysite>/bad-page.html).
The rest is up to you. I am using it to check a database for "subscriber aliases"
(ex. http://www.<mysite>/person1) that I then use to redirect the visitor to a certain page, also stored in the database.
Obviously it won't work for people with JavaScript turned off, but I tend to go with the 99% solutions.
Hope this helps.