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Missing page throws a 500 error instead of 404 on pages now found.
Here's whats in my .htaccess file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.php [L,QSA]
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/perch
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /post.php?s=$1 [L]
</IfModule>
secure htaccess file
<Files .htaccess> order allow,deny deny from all </Files>
Any ideas why it's not throwing a 404 error on pages not found?
What is in your error log? A "500 error" is an error notification.
I've managed to get rid of the 500 error but now if I go to a page that doesn't exist it just goes to another page rather than throwing a 404 error.
Your rewrite rule is marching almost anything and routing it to
/post.phpThis is a rewrite rule you recommed for blog post clean URLs:
RewriteRule ^blog/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /blog/post.php?s=$1 [L]
I want my blog posts to be in the root of the site. How do I make that work without using this:
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /post.php?s=$1 [L]
Therein lies the challenge. I think the only way you can tell a valid post slug from an invalid 404 is to see if you have a matching post. So it would be better to handle the 404 within
post.phpthan trying to deal with it in your rewrite rules.Ah ok.
How would I do that within post.php?
Otherwise I'll have to live with putting the blogs into a folder – it's not the end of the world.
Ok this is what I've ended up with:
<?php perch_blog_custom(array( 'filter' => 'postSlug', 'value' => perch_get('s'), 'skip-template' => true, ));
if (count($post)==0) { // No matching post! include('includes/404.php'); exit; } ?>
But this then includes the contents of my 404. page at the end of the post.
You probably want to test for the 404 first.
You probably want to test for the 404 first.
Yep, Im getting the 404 page as expected if there's a page that doesn't exist so that part of the problem is fixed.
It's just that the include is printing underneath the contents of the post.php page and stopping the rest of the page displaying from there.
So put it first - right at the top after the runtime include.
That doesn't work. It kills the whole page then.
I've put the blog posts into a folder as that solves the problem more effectively.
What error are you getting?
no error. Just a blank page.
I've put the blog section into a folder now and that seems a better solution in hindsight I think.