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Here's a simple example just redirects a person to your homepage for any request that would otherwise be 'not found'. It's not actually all that helpful. | Here's a simple example just redirects a person to your homepage for any request that would otherwise be 'not found'. It's not actually all that helpful. | ||
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Now, when an unconfigured domain is requested, the script at /var/www/default/errors/notfound.php is invoked instead. This script can check <code><nowiki>$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']</nowiki></code> to see what domain was requested. If it is actually configured, then we have a regular 404. If it's not configured, we can display some alternate error message. You could redirect to a "default" domain, or show a sign-up screen for your hosting service.<ref>http://serverfault.com/a/685521/192385</ref> | Now, when an unconfigured domain is requested, the script at /var/www/default/errors/notfound.php is invoked instead. This script can check <code><nowiki>$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']</nowiki></code> to see what domain was requested. If it is actually configured, then we have a regular 404. If it's not configured, we can display some alternate error message. You could redirect to a "default" domain, or show a sign-up screen for your hosting service.<ref>http://serverfault.com/a/685521/192385</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 13:13, 24 February 2025
404 is the server response code for "Document Not Found".
You can do some interesting things with your server to provide a better (or amusing) experience to the user[1].
Here's a simple example just redirects a person to your homepage for any request that would otherwise be 'not found'. It's not actually all that helpful. <syntaxhighlight lang="apache"> ErrorDocument 404 / </source>
Here's a more interesting example for using an ErrorDocument in a virtual hosting scenario where you want to handle not just missing documents, but also 'missing' domains.
The challenge: If there's no DocumentRoot, where will the script live? Alias to the rescue.
<source lang="apache"> <VirtualHost *>
UseCanonicalName Off VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/clients/%-2/%0/ ServerName catchall.host Alias /errors /var/www/default/errors/ ErrorDocument 404 /errors/notfound.php
</VirtualHost>
</syntaxhhighlight>
Now, when an unconfigured domain is requested, the script at /var/www/default/errors/notfound.php is invoked instead. This script can check $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] to see what domain was requested. If it is actually configured, then we have a regular 404. If it's not configured, we can display some alternate error message. You could redirect to a "default" domain, or show a sign-up screen for your hosting service.[2]
