$REQUEST_URI in php.....doesn't seem to work

[James Smith]

Hi

I'm making a custom 404 page.

I have htaccess redirect 404's to http://www.hiphopmusic.co.uk/index.php?missing=1

However, echoing $REQUEST_URI simply echos "?missing=1", and not the reffering page.

What do i need to do

cheers
James

[Karl]

Hmmm, it should do.

Try this instead:

echo $SCRIPT_NAME.'?'.$QUERY_STRING;

OR

echo getenv( 'SCRIPT_NAME' ).'?'.getenv( 'QUERY_STRING' );

The second version is for systems where the ENV variables are not made into globals.

[Son Nguyen]

Use $HTTP_REFERER will give you the referring page.

[Karl]

Hmmm, I completly mis-read that one. Guess I should slow down and sleep more, it might help.

[James Smith]

$HTTP_REFERER does not seem to work either :

http://www.hiphopmusic.co.uk/sdfsdfsdf.html

it should be echoed on index.php here .....link () which ...... between the brackets.

J

[Son Nguyen]

It does work!
When I clicked the link, it showed this thread's URL.

[Kevin Yank]

Maybe James wants the bad URL echoed? Here's how we do it at SitePoint:

$thisurl = $SERVER_NAME . $REDIRECT_URL;
if ($REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING) 
{
	$fullurl = $thisurl . $REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING;
}
else
{
	$fullurl = $thisurl;
}

[Son Nguyen]

What does that do, Kevin?
Echo bad URLs? What do you mean by that?
But which variables are provided by user or they're all environment vars?

Thanks

[Kevin Yank]

Basically the above will set $fullurl to the URL that caused the 404 error (rather than the URL that provided the link). We get both and send our administrator an email saying "a link to $fullurl on page $referrerpage caused a 404 error."

All of the variables are environment vars.

[Son Nguyen]

Oh nice, where do put it then? In the 404 customized page?

[Kevin Yank]

Yes.

[James Smith]

I am still getting the same problem !

try http://www.hiphopmusic.co.uk/sdfsdf.html

Thanks for your help, and it's good to see you back !

J

[Victor]

Using the following code, I too, had problems. Am I missing anything?


[code]<?php

$thisurl = $SERVER_NAME . $REDIRECT_URL;
if ($REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING)
{
$fullurl = $thisurl . $REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING;
}
else
{
$fullurl = $thisurl;
}

echo $fullurl . " Unavailable.";
echo $fullurl . " Unavailable.";


?>code]


The error page only returns the the Domain Name.

[Son Nguyen]

I am not sure if you could use $REDIRECT_URL directly but the correct form that I know is

getenv("REDIRECT_URL");

And it should return the URL that requested this destination file using redirection (like in .htaccess or config file)

[Karl]

If you want your scripts to be portable you should use getenv( 'VAR_NAME' ); as not all installations of PHP expand the environment variables in actual variables.

[Victor]

Still, no luck.

test here
http://sprungmind.com/page/exist_not.html

<?php 

$redirecturl = getenv("REQUEST_URI"); 
$servername = getenv("SERVER_NAME");
$thisurl = $servername . $redirecturl; 
$redirectquerystring = getenv("REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING");

if ($redirectquerystring) 
{
	$fullurl = $thisurl . $redirectquerystring;
}
else
{
	$fullurl = $thisurl;
}

echo $fullurl . " File Doesn't Exist or is Temporarily Unavailable."; 

?>

I've tried REQUEST_URI and REDIRECT_URL

[Son Nguyen]

That page is protected, I got 401 since I don't know the password
And secondly, it's weird when I tried, I got very weird result from getenv("REDIRECT_URL");

It produces some files that I've NEVER seen!
Probably there is some issue with share server (probably those are others' file on the same server!)

[Victor]

It produces some files that I've NEVER seen!
Probably there is some issue with share server (probably those are others' file on the same server!)

Can you help me understand? I can't duplicate what you speak of.

Also, by the way...

username: support
password: thankyou

Your help is graciously appreciated.

Sincerly,
<Edited by Victor on 12-20-2000 at 12:51 PM>

[Son Nguyen]

Oh, when I used getenv("REDIRECT_URL");
I got:

/grandslam.htm (which is not on my site!)
and a bunch of other weird things (but I don't have it at the moment)

So I guessed it could be some files from other sites on the same server, or it could be anything else, I am not sure!