Topic awaiting preservation: 404s on dreamhost

http://www.embege.com/nonexistentpage.php

why does this not lead to a 404 error, but gives me:

"No input file specified."



edit: for those interested, dreamhost runs a wiki since today: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/

(Edited by GRUMBLE on 04-05-2005 17:38)

php displays that when it's run as cgi and can't find the file.

php returns that if it's run as a cgi and can't find the file.

aha thanks.

i think its dreamhost standard for php to be run as cgi, right?

any possibilities to get a 404 even when php runs as cgi?

You could write your own error pages ... http://andredion.com/no_page_here.php

actually i do have my own 404-page, but it only works for non-php urls:

www.embege.com/somethinnullandvoid

synax, do you run php in cgi mode? if so, how did you do this 404-page?

nice positive post 'naxer!

GRUMBLE: I know for a fact he does it like so cuz I unashamedly robbed him of it

thanks, but i still dont think this will catch the php-cgi error.
also, where is the $code variable coming from? i dont think apache sends this to a php script.

but i'd be happy to be proven wrong...

Here be the relevant parts of me .htaccess file:

ErrorDocument 400 /error.php?code=400

ErrorDocument 401 /error.php?code=401

ErrorDocument 403 /error.php?code=403

ErrorDocument 404 /error.php?code=404

ErrorDocument 500 /error.php?code=500

ErrorDocument 501 /error.php?code=501

ErrorDocument 502 /error.php?code=502

ErrorDocument 503 /error.php?code=503

that's about the same as i have.
the problem is that it doesnt even get that far. the apache sees the ending ".php" and then calls the cgi executable of php to do the rest. (is that right?)

still, i'd be interested if you are running php in cgi mode or apache module mode.

thanks!

Check the dreamhost Knowledge Base. They've got an article on there about using mod_rewrite to make custom error pages work with PHP run as a CGI


Justice 4 Pat Richard

Ahhh yes. I'm getting the same problem as you when I run my PHP as CGI. I found other people at DH with the same problem (via the support forums) but they had found no solution. I also couldn't find this article you speak of, Skaarjj. Perhaps you could provide us with a link?

yepp, personally, ive never been a friend of PHP as CGI. why run an extra process if apache is running already?

here is that article on custom 404s using CGI:
https://panel.dreamhost.com/kbase/index.cgi?area=2933

thanks guys!

btw: rumors say, dreamhost will roll out PHP5 in may.