PHP 404 Error Page with redirect

[jonperks]

Hi

I've got a php custom 404 error page set up no problem, however I want to take what the user adds after the slash and redirect based on that. for example

http://www.mydomain.com/jon

I want to take the "jon" and redirect to a page with jon as a query string. I have looked up a lot about this and believe that "$_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL']

 

[sleipnir214]

Then use that information to construct and send to the browser a "Location" header. See the examples at

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

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[jonperks]

It missed some of my post off?

My problem is that $_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'] returns /404.php which is the page where I am calling it from, what I thought it should be returning is the the information of the error page, so

http://www.mydomain.com/jon

would output "jon" as this page doesn't exist and therefore opens the custom 404 page? most out the $_SERVER parts return blank I'm not sure why?

Any ideas...

 

[jonperks]

$_SERVER['REDIRECT_URI'] in fact...

 

[jonperks]

sorry REQUEST_URI, neither work properly though, i think its something about apache, i guess my server wont work but is there an alternative?

 

[ingresman]

are you sorted here as well ?

 

[jonperks]

Yep sorted this out now, and created the next problem for myself...