Comments on: Friendly error pages using PHP and .htaccess http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2002/12/08/friendly-error-pages-using-php-and-htaccess/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:07:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Lee Stewart http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2002/12/08/friendly-error-pages-using-php-and-htaccess/comment-page-1/#comment-8736 Lee Stewart Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2002/12/08/friendly-error-pages-using-php-and-htaccess/#comment-8736 I wasted all that time making error pages and could have used these? Although, I have my website eMailing me with the errors, so I think I'm a bigger geek than you guys... I wasted all that time making error pages and could have used these?

Although, I have my website eMailing me with the errors, so I think I'm a bigger geek than you guys…

]]> By: Amy http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2002/12/08/friendly-error-pages-using-php-and-htaccess/comment-page-1/#comment-8735 Amy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2002/12/08/friendly-error-pages-using-php-and-htaccess/#comment-8735 Hmmmmm. Yes. I can tell you how to do it in my language of choice (PHP) <i>(everybody quit laughing already!)</i> . It's an UGLY solution, but sometimes ugly problems require...well, you know. You can repeat the elseif{} section as many times as necessary depending on how many sites you have. I <i>think</i> $_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'] is the right PHP variable to use, but I'm bashing this out in a hurry. Expect syntax errors and the like, but I think this is at least a start for a solution. Anyway, here 'tis. <h3><? if(stristr($_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'],"main_name_of_first_site")) { ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>404 - File not found.</title> </head> <body> <h1>404. File not found.</h1> <p>That file (<strong>http://example.com<?= $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ?></strong>) does not exist. Other nicely apologetic language can go here.</p> </body> </html> <? } elseif(stristr($_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'],"main_name_of_second_site")) { ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>404 - File not found.</title> </head> <body> <h1>404. File not found.</h1> <p>That file (<strong>http://example2.com<?= $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ?></strong>) does not exist. Other nicely apologetic language can go here.</p> </body> </html> <? } else { ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>404 - File not found.</title> </head> <body> <h1>404. File not found.</h1> <p>That file (<strong>http://example3.com<?= $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ?></strong>) does not exist. Other nicely apologetic language can go here.</p> </body> </html> <? } ?> </h3> Hmmmmm. Yes. I can tell you how to do it in my language of choice (PHP) (everybody quit laughing already!) . It's an UGLY solution, but sometimes ugly problems require…well, you know.

You can repeat the elseif{} section as many times as necessary depending on how many sites you have.

I think $_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'] is the right PHP variable to use, but I'm bashing this out in a hurry. Expect syntax errors and the like, but I think this is at least a start for a solution.

Anyway, here 'tis.

<?
if(stristr($_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'],"main_name_of_first_site")) { ?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>404 – File not found.</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>404. File not found.</h1>
<p>That file (<strong>http://example.com<?= $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ?></strong>) does not exist. Other nicely apologetic language can go here.</p>
</body>
</html>
<? }
elseif(stristr($_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'],"main_name_of_second_site")) { ?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>404 – File not found.</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>404. File not found.</h1>
<p>That file (<strong>http://example2.com<?= $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ?></strong>) does not exist. Other nicely apologetic language can go here.</p>
</body>
</html>
<? }

else { ?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>404 – File not found.</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>404. File not found.</h1>
<p>That file (<strong>http://example3.com<?= $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ?></strong>) does not exist. Other nicely apologetic language can go here.</p>
</body>
</html>
<? } ?>

]]> By: Scott http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2002/12/08/friendly-error-pages-using-php-and-htaccess/comment-page-1/#comment-8734 Scott Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2002/12/08/friendly-error-pages-using-php-and-htaccess/#comment-8734 this seams like the right place to ask this: on my host they only let me have one custom 404 (and so on) page, but i am hosting 3 sites, all with totally different looks, i would like to make some php that gets the refering url and check the domain name (cause they all have a different one) and displays certain code, but no clue how to do it, any ideas? this seams like the right place to ask this: on my host they only let me have one custom 404 (and so on) page, but i am hosting 3 sites, all with totally different looks, i would like to make some php that gets the refering url and check the domain name (cause they all have a different one) and displays certain code, but no clue how to do it, any ideas?

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