error 404 template with query string?

[lucidtech]

I have a custom 404 error document setup in my .htaccess file. I was wondering, is there a way to pass the original url typed in (the url that the browser attempted to visit but was not found) to the template that is loaded?

Meaning, if I type in

http://www.mydomain.com/bad_page.html

in my browser and that page doesn't exist, then the default error template is loaded passing THAT address in a variable to the template (like

http://www.mydomain.com/404.html?redirect=bad_page.html).

 

[feherke]

Hi

is there a way to pass the original url typed in

It is already available. Unless a redirection happens before, the error handler will still have the original request in the [tt]REQUEST_URI[/tt] environment variable ( or something equivalent if you use some framework ). If handled internally ( in fact not redirected, just rewritten ) also a set of variables with names prefixed with [tt]REDIRECT_[/tt] are set to provide details about the circumstances.

However if your [tt]ErrorDocument[/tt] points to a static file, those environment variables will be of no use.

Regarding your syntax with the query string, there is no way to do it like that, as far as I know.


Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[lucidtech]

Thank you for your reply. I tested this with PHP and it worked, but I need this to work on my railo server, which is running Tomcat. Seems as though the request environment variable is being lost in the process... any ideas?

 

[feherke]

Hi

Never heard about railo before and my relation with Tomcat was not a close one.

If your configuration looks like [tt]ErrorDocument 404 /just/a/path[/tt], then I would say, it should work with that railo too.

If your configuration looks like [tt]ErrorDocument 404 [ignore]

http://address.of.tomcat

[/ignore][/tt], then I would change the handler to a PHP script which redirects to the railo thing using [tt]header()[/tt], passing the [tt]REQUEST_URI[/tt] in the query string.

Note that redirecting on a 404 error is a bad idea as it confuses the crawlers.


Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[lucidtech]

Okay, this is for anyone who searches for a solution with this same problem : Apache server with Railo & Tomcat on a linux box which displays empty cgi variables on a custom 404 error page. Here is what I did (reference to this post, all credit due to the author, but I'm posting it here too with simplified instructions

http://www.railodeveloper.com/post....in-railo-on-tomcat-and-apache-404-redirects).

Added the followings to my httpd.conf file, in the <IfModule mod_jk.c> section :

JkEnvVar REDIRECT_URL ""
JkEnvVar REDIRECT_REMOTE_HOST ""
JkEnvVar REDIRECT_PATH ""
JkEnvVar REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING ""
JkEnvVar REDIRECT_HTTP_ACCEPT ""
JkEnvVar REDIRECT_HTTP_USER_AGENT ""
JkEnvVar REDIRECT_REMOTE_ADDR ""
JkEnvVar REDIRECT_SERVER_NAME ""
JkEnvVar REDIRECT_SERVER_PORT ""
JkEnvVar REDIRECT_SERVER_SOFTWARE ""

Restarted my server, then set a variable via CFML using this :

<cfset checkName = getPageContext().getRequest().getOriginalRequest().getAttribute('REDIRECT_URL')>

This worked perfectly for, and I hope someday someone pulling their hair out for hours finds this post and it helps them too. Thank you fo ryour help feherke and to the author of the link I posted. Finally I can have custom urls for user profiles.