Emailing the url of 'page not found'

Asked Aug 22 '17 at 18:49

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I've created a php 404 page not found and added it to my server settings, this works great.

I want the page to email me the url of the missing page (e.g. /folder/misspeltpagename.php) but all I can get it the url of the 'page not found' page (e.g. /error-docs/not-found.php).

I'm using $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] to get the url.

edited Aug 23 '17 at 05:19

Kirk Beard

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asked Aug 22 '17 at 18:49

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you'd need to post your full code for this and if there's an `.htaccess` file into play – Funk Forty Niner Aug 22 '17 at 18:50
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printing out $_SERVER, `print_r($_SERVER)` may give you more info, like REQUEST_URI – Devon Bessemer Aug 22 '17 at 18:51
Do you want it to mail you something like domain.com/not-found.php? – Mr Pro Pop Aug 22 '17 at 18:52

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I'm guessing that you simply redirect from any invalid page to your 404 page, so you can just use $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] to get what page directed to your 404 page.

answered Aug 22 '17 at 18:54

Mitchygitchy

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`$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']` cannot be relied on. https://stackoverflow.com/a/6023980/1415724 – Funk Forty Niner Aug 22 '17 at 18:55

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add this to .htaccess:

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

and then in 404.php use

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

answered Aug 22 '17 at 19:18

gio

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Thank you @gio, this worked however I didn't look at my htaccess file. – Aug 23 '17 at 18:44