Re: [cobalt-users] [raq4] how to make 404's revert to homepage on a virtual server?

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

s> Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 12:49:37 +0100
s> From: scott


s> I have a RaQ4 with about 40 virtual sites. I want to create a
s> single php script that will make any 404 errors on any of the
s> virtual sites revert to the respective sites homepage. Is this
s> possible with one script replacing one 404 error page on the
s> raq. I have seen a few ways of doing it with htaccess but
s> don't want to have to do that to all the sites. Is there a
s> simple way to achieve what I require without having to upload
s> and do things to all the sites individually. Best regards
s> Scott

I don't know if Ap internally regenerates a new request for the
error page (not what you want), or if it loads the desired script
and passes the old parameters (in which case you could do it).
My recollection is it's the former. :-(  I could well be wrong.

Personally, I just write custom Ap modules for this sort of
situation.  Much less resource-intensive than CGI or PHP.

YMMV. *shrug*


Eddy
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