403 and 404

Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 11:00 pm

Running that module of your choice that serves up custom Apache error pages inside of phpnuke? If so consider this hack for a more complete job of it.

In modules php you will find several instances of:
die("Hi and Bye"); // Just one of these
echo "You are so cool..."; // Just one of these
die ("Sorry, such file doesn't exist..."); // 5 of these

You can replace the smart remarks with real informative errors. Just replace the above messages with something like:
// Forbidden
Header("Location: error.php?op=modload&name=Error&file=403");
exit;

and/or:
// Not Found
Header("Location: error.php?op=modload&name=Error&file=404");
exit;

Of course using the url of your custom error pages in place of these examples.

I'm sure this has been brought up before but it occured to me it was worth posting when I noticed a lot of search engines hitting a module I recently removed. I figured those goofy messages didn't do a thing for them.

Client Joined: Apr 10, 2004 Posts: 649 Location: UK

Thanks Six I have all my error pages as custom pages, and people are telling me they miss the flying sheep when they hit a 404

So do I put the url of my 404 page here:

("Location: error.php?op=http: etc etc url of 404/or 403 page");

sorry to be so dim at times. lol

I'll give this one a go.

Cheers!