RE: [PHP] 404 error

But if the file has an extension that you have told Apache to associate with PHP, it gets sent to the parser before Apache checks to see if it exists. The paresr then sends back an html page with the error on, so Apache thinks it has found the page. At least that's what happens on our server. Am I missing something in Apache that will tell the server to check a file exits before it sends the request to the server? Tim Ward Senior Systems Engineer Please refer to the following disclaimer in respect of this message: http://www.stivesdirect.com/e-mail-disclaimer.html > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Reiniger [SMTP:creinig@mayn.de] > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 11:10 AM > To: Tim Ward > Cc: PHP General > Subject: Re: [PHP] 404 error > > On Monday 24 September 2001 10:08, Tim Ward wrote: > > But how did you get the PHP code to run if the file doesn't exist? If a > > file with a php extension is requested Apache thinks the error returned > > by the PHP parser is a valid response to the request and auto_prepend > > only seems to work after the parser has got the file for parsing. > > Simple :) > You tell apache to serve, say, 404.php on a 404, and in *that* file you > place the code :) > > If you want to send a 404 from an existing php file, do a > > header ('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found'); > include ("404.php"); > exit (); > > > -- > Christian Reiniger > LGDC Webmaster (http://lgdc.sunsite.dk/) > > Results 1 - 10 of about 201,000,000. Search took 0.08 seconds > > - http://www.google.com/search?q=e