Checking for File Not Found

[spaulding]

Is there a way to check for the "404 File Not Found" error? I have a routine schedule ("schedule_normal.htm&quot that I want to publish one time and a few unique schedules that I publish using a "schedule_'date'.htm" format. I want to use the calendar behavior to build the file name string with the requested date. If there is a modified schedule, the script would direct them to the appropriate file. If somebody requests the file for a date with a regular schedule and I can check for the 404 error, I can redirect them to schedule_normal.htm and all is well. Can anybody help?

 

[iza]

this has to be done server side
it requires you can access your webserver so you can set redirects

 

[spaulding]

Does anybody know where a good source of information about this type server side scripting might be?

 

[tsdragon]

Actually, it's not server side scripting, it part of the server processing. If you're using apache this is done via mod-rewrite. Check out

http://httpd.apache.org

and look for mod_rewrite and the "URL Rewriting Guide".

Alternatively, you could use a cgi script in perl using the LWP module to check for the existence of the page and then print a redirect.
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[spaulding]

Thanks

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