how to direct the user to the 404 page when the requested page is not found

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Morning,

There is a project that i am currently working on on php,html and css. problem is i have created a 404 page that needs to show up every time the user sends the page that does not exists within my web application. my question is , how can i implement that?

Thanks in advance.

Posted 22-Jul-15 22:27pm

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Andy Lanng · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-22T22:40:00

Solution 1

PHP

<?php
header($_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"]." 404 Not Found");
include("notFound.php");
?>

or edit apache's httpd.conf:

ErrorDocument 404 /notFound.php

Posted 22-Jul-15 22:40pm

Andy Lanng

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Member 9303555 23-Jul-15 7:06am

do i put this code on each and every page.

Andy Lanng 23-Jul-15 7:17am

If I were you I would create a handlers.php to add items like this to and include it there. handlers should be on every page

Member 9303555 23-Jul-15 7:23am

Thank you soo much Andy you have made my day.