Re: Interesting Question (honest :O)

Hello Gareth, (GD == "Gareth Davies") garethdavies@frogtrade.com writes: GD> How do I trap a request for a none existant page on my server with GD> a php page? My reason for wanting to do this is so that people can GD> access my domain with an extension of their own company name, e.g. GD> www.mydomain.com/company - Rather than creating loads of little GD> html pages, one for each "company" name, I want to automatically GD> redirect any failed page requests to a generic php file that can GD> then check a database and present whatever page is relevant to the GD> "company" name given. Using an .htaccess file (or httpd.conf itself): ErrorDocument 404 /errordocs/404.php Or similar. Check the Apache online docs. Of course the 404.php file would work it's magic, but that's up to you to decide what magic that should be -- your database query, reporting etc. GD> Hope that makes sense. Not sure if it's PHP, probably Apache, but GD> figured you guys were more likely to know the answer than the GD> Apache forums. I'm sure they'd have given you just about the same advice. GD> Thank you in anticipation. -Brian