RE: [PHP] sending a 404 error

... and how do you get the server to send a 404 error if the browser calls a page that doesn't exist with a suffix that is marked to be parsed by php? Tim Ward ---------- From: GATop [SMTP:gatop@hot.ee] Sent: 17 September 2001 05:44 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] sending a 404 error Hello Michael, Sunday, September 16, 2001, 9:05:35 AM, you wrote: MAP> Is it possible to invoke the server 404 error error from php? MAP> Where I would like to do such a thing is MAP> http://24.5.29.77:10080/encryption/index.phps MAP> I would like to replace the line MAP> die ("The file you wish to download does not exist"); MAP> with instead an invocation of the http 404 error. MAP> Theoretically a 404 error should never happen if I properly did my stuff, but it would be nice for me to be able to detect such problems just from the http error logs... MAP> If there's not a way to directly do it, I'll need to redirect to a 404 error page (well, include my custom error page) and have the script make an entry into the http_error log- but a nice one MAP> liner invocation of Apache's built in 404 error function would be nice... Yes You can header ("404 Not Found"); should work -- Best regards, GATop mailto:gatop@hot.ee