How to get page not found URL to my mail?

PHP
1

Hi all,
I want to know the Page not found URL’s of my site (is there any broken links in my site, i want to rectify it), which is to be visited by users, before showing/redirecting to the 404 custom page.

For that, i want to write some php script, to get the

$_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’] and mail it to me.

But it is not working properly.

Can any one solve this problem…

Thanking you…

2

I… would say this needs the eye of someone with apache knowhow; you’ll need to rewrite the 404 page definition and… pass it the target URL on the query string? I dont even know if that’s possible.

3

Assuming AllowOverride is set to All in your apache config you can then set the error document using a .htaccess file (otherwise you’ll have to do it in your httpd.conf).


ErrorDocument 404 /path/to/not_found.phtml

Then just include your mail code in not_found.phtml.

edit: hadn’t read this properly, but $_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’] should work. Don’t forget it’s only set if there is a referrer; if you access the script directly the referrer will not be set.

George

4

Except at that point isnt $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] = not_found.phtml? He’s trying to pass the attempted URL to the 404 page for emailing to himself.

5

Both $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] and $_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’] work as expected.



Array
(
    [REDIRECT_REQUEST_METHOD] => GET
    [REDIRECT_STATUS] => 404
    [HTTP_HOST] => localhost
    [HTTP_CONNECTION] => keep-alive
    [HTTP_REFERER] => http://localhost/playarea/test.html
    [HTTP_USER_AGENT] => Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.100 Safari/534.30
    [HTTP_ACCEPT] => text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
    [HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING] => gzip,deflate,sdch
    [HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE] => en-GB,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6
    [HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET] => ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
    [PATH] => /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
    [SERVER_SIGNATURE] => Apache/2.2.16 Server at localhost Port 80
    [SERVER_SOFTWARE] => Apache/2.2.16 
    [SERVER_NAME] => localhost
    [SERVER_ADDR] => 127.0.0.1
    [SERVER_PORT] => 80
    [REMOTE_ADDR] => 127.0.0.1
    [DOCUMENT_ROOT] => /var/www
    [SERVER_ADMIN] => webmaster@localhost
    [SCRIPT_FILENAME] => /var/www/playarea/not_found.phtml
    [REMOTE_PORT] => 57876
    [REDIRECT_URL] => /playarea/i_dont_exist
    [GATEWAY_INTERFACE] => CGI/1.1
    [SERVER_PROTOCOL] => HTTP/1.1
    [REQUEST_METHOD] => GET
    [QUERY_STRING] => 
    [REQUEST_URI] => /playarea/i_dont_exist
    [SCRIPT_NAME] => /playarea/not_found.phtml
    [PHP_SELF] => /playarea/not_found.phtml
    [REQUEST_TIME] => 1308842418
)
6

Odd. When i do it on my XAMPP local installation, i get the 404 page in REQUEST_URI.

EDIT: Nevermind, I messed up the 404 htaccess. You are indeed correct (and a very handy piece of information to have learnt!)

7

Maybe different apache versions? Another option would be to do this:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /not_found.phtml

George

edit: didn’t notice your edit. I’ll leave that there though as could be useful if someone has AllowOverride set to None and does not have access to change httpd.conf