Re: [cobalt-users] How to stop rewrite URL on 404 error

[Greg Hewitt-Long <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I'm trying to write a custom 404 Not Found error page, with a PHP script
>that will e-mail me with the URL the visitor was trying to reach. If I put
>"ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.php" in the .htaccess file for the site, the
>URL in the browser will rewrite to http://www.mysite.com/notfound.php
>regardless of what I type in for a bogus page to generate a 404 error. In
>the e-mail, the $HTTP_REFERER variable will return nothing (that's if I just
>type a nonexistent URL in the browser), and the $REQUEST_URI variable will
>return /notfound.php.


I don't know how you have your RAQ configured, but I have a file called 404err.shtml as my 404 documents (defined in .htaccess, as you suggest) - and this page calls a referrer recording CGI script - it's a snip - nothing to it.

I read:

REDIRECT_REDIRECT_SCRIPT_URI=http://www.webyourbusiness.com/asdadadasdasd
REDIRECT_REDIRECT_SCRIPT_URL=/asdadadasdasd
REDIRECT_REDIRECT_URL=/asdadadasdasd
REDIRECT_REQUEST_URI=/asdadadasdasd
REDIRECT_SCRIPT_URI=http://www.webyourbusiness.com/asdadadasdasd
REDIRECT_SCRIPT_URL=/asdadadasdasd
REDIRECT_SERVER_ADMIN=admin
REQUEST_URI=/asdadadasdasd
SCRIPT_URI=http://www.webyourbusiness.com/asdadadasdasd
SCRIPT_URL=/asdadadasdasd


By placing a call to env in the .shtml file, I saw all of the above environments variables with my fictitious URL in it - take your pick.

Greg
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