Thread: PHP on 404 error page

**james1987** · 30 Jul 2012 @ 13.08

Ok, First off if this is in the wrong place please feel free to move it.

I added a little drop of code to my 404 to see where the pages were failing and i'm now getting hundreds of emails the code i added to the page was

PHP Code:

 <?php require_once("910363_Connections/loveit.php"); ?>
<?php include("header.php"); ?>
<head>


<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;url=http://www.loveitmagazine.co.uk/">
<title>404 Error Page</title>
</head>


<body>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="center" style="color:White"><h1>404 Error</h1></div>
<div align="center" style="color:White"><p>Whoops looks like you've turn too many pages! Or that theres been a mistake. Lets get you back on track our home page will load shortly.</p>


</div> 
<?php
$url = $_SERVER[ "REQUEST_URI" ];
$referrer = $_SERVER[ "HTTP_REFERER" ];
if ( $referrer == "" )
$referrer = "Unknown";
if ($url!= "/sitemap.rdf"
&& stristr($url, '/_vti_bin/') == FALSE
&& stristr($url, '/siteinfo.xml') == FALSE
&& stristr($url, '/MSOffice/clt') == FALSE
){
mail("webmaster@loveitmagazine.co.uk", "Page Not Found",
"Requested Page: " . $url
. "\r\nReferred By: " . $referrer
. "\r\nRemote Addr: " . $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] . " (" . $_SERVER["REMOTE_HOST"] . ")"
. "\r\n"
. "\r\nRequest URI: " . $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]
. "\r\n"
,"From: [email]webmaster@loveitmagazine.co.uk[/email]" );
}
?> 
</body>
</html>

Its all working great appart from im getting 100's of emails with this or similar stating the requested site is the 404 page?:-

HTML Code:

Requested Page: /404.php
Referred By: [url=http://www.loveitmagazine.co.uk/stories_form.php]Love It Online! Celeb gossip, recipes, fashion, beauty and real life stories![/url]
Remote Addr: 197.15.81.160 ()
Request URI: /404.php

i dont know why this causing this error any help or suggestions would be lovely!

**Mike Hopley** · 30 Jul 2012 @ 13.55

In your code, the "requested page" and "request uri" are both set to $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], which is "the URI which was given in order to access this page". Therefore you'd expect it to be the 404 page.

Wouldn't it be simpler to track this using error logs or analytics?