AW: [users@httpd] htaccess

[Mididoc Productions <ma...@mididoc.com>]

unfortunately the logfiles have been overwritten
will do a new install.

as soon as i get the same php messages i will store them and send them to
you.
but the questions rests, why the error treatment works with all tipped files
instead php extension.

if the user tips
/xxx/inde
/xxx/index.htm
etc.
error 404 is not displayed by the browser
the redirection gets him to the page we want.

but as soon as he tips
/xxx/index.php
or else with .php
the browser answers with the windows 404 error message
and our error treatment getting him to a certain page does not work anymore.

thanks for your answers

regards

mike


> > > - error_log entry
>
> This would be useful...
>
> > > - access_log entry
>
> so would this...
>
> > > - do you actually have PHP installed?
>
> > no
> >
> >
> > > - is it configured correctly and working on existing URLs?
> > >
> > > Incidentally, I'm a little bemused by this problem of "high
> > > importance" - it is not usual that users surf a site by typing in
> > > random URLs in the hope that they lead to a page. So I don't
> > > quite see what all the panic's about.
> >
> > It does not matter if I redirect the user to the main-page or
> > to a special
> > error page.
> > Fact is, that the error treatment does not work correctly,
> > when the tipped
> > url has the extension php.
> >
> > there is no panic around here, especially not here in southern france.
> > it's just making us crazy beeing hacked from people and we
> > want to defend,
> > say answer these hacks,
> > just redirecting them to the main page.
>
> Hacks? Requesting a non-existent URL is not a hack, it's a perfectly
> normal occurance on the web and the protocol defines exactly what to do
> - return a 404 status message. Optionally, the server can redirect to
> another resource, but it's assumed that the other resource would give
> the user *more* information about what went wrong.
>
> The routing is not "working correctly" because you have a
> misconfiguration in your config (did you search it for any PHP related
> directives?). We could probably offer more advise if we could see the
> error_log (it'll say what file it can't actually find) but it looks like
> you can't be bothered to dig that out...
>
> Rgds,
> Owen Boyle


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