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by **Mark Stabe** » Wed, 28 Jan 1998 04:00:00

I'm using the ErrorDocument directive to provide a custom 404 error page.
However one drawback is that users can no longer see the faulty url they
requested.

Is there a way to include the default "The requested URL /foo.html was not
found on this server." behavior in a custom error document?

Mark Staben

by **Marc Slemk** » Wed, 28 Jan 1998 04:00:00

Quote:>I'm using the ErrorDocument directive to provide a custom 404 error page.
>However one drawback is that users can no longer see the faulty url they
>requested.

That depends how you call it. If you use a full URL like
http://site/path/notfound.html then it is that way but it isn't if
you use something like /path/notfound.html

Quote:>Is there a way to include the default "The requested URL /foo.html was not
>found on this server." behavior in a custom error document?

Sure, but only if you don't use the full URL in which case the user
normally (depending on their client) sees the one that caused the
404 anyway. To see all the environment variables you can use
(either in a SSI or a CGI), setup a 404 to redirect to the printenv
script.

by **Kurt J. Lanz** » Wed, 28 Jan 1998 04:00:00

> I'm using the ErrorDocument directive to provide a custom 404 error page.
> However one drawback is that users can no longer see the faulty url they
> requested.

> Is there a way to include the default "The requested URL /foo.html was not
> found on this server." behavior in a custom error document?

The URL ought ot be in one of your environment variables. If it were me
(on a unix system) I would code my 404 CGI to do an "env" and look at
it.
--
Kurt J. Lanza

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Custom 404 error message in Apache

Custom 404 error message in Apache

Custom 404 error message in Apache

Custom 404 error message in Apache