When looking at my web log I found a lot of 404 errors and was wondering why, until I received an email from a user complaining about capital letters in my directory structure. For example this webpage is http://panmental.de/public/programming_projects/ciURLs/ and users might easily get the capital "URL" wrong. However with this costum error script page you can as well type (or click) http://panmental.de/public/programming_PROJECTS/ciurls/ and will still arrive here! Now also corrects typos or swapped letters like here: http://panmental.de/public/programming_porjects/ciurls/.
Instead of directly displaying a "not found" error message the script tries to find a case mismatch; if it finds an alternative page the user will be sent there.
Using this script on your server requires two simple steps:
1) Download the php script file to your PC and then upload it to the base directory of your webserver.
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2) To make your web server use that file for error messages you have to add the following to the .htaccess file (resp. create a file named .htaccess with that content if non-existent) in the base directory of your webserver:ErrorDocument 404 /error.phpThat's it!
When you open the downloaded script with a text editor you will find the following options in the first lines:
$email="email@me.com"; //email of web page owner (yours) $name="John Smith"; //name of web page owner (yours) $delay="1"; //delay until forwarding in seconds $dist_limit="2"; //how different are URLs allowed to be considered a typo $error_page=""; //your own html error page, e.g. "error.html" or leave "" for defaultChange these to appropriate values if you like. For$dist_limit
see the Levenshtein description at the PHP site; it measures the difference of strings by calculating the minimal number of characters you have to replace, insert or delete to transform ont string into the other. The default value 2 allows for omitting two characters or one swap in the URL.
This is http://ciURLs.panmental.de
I do not guarantee the correctness/adequateness of the script or the information given on this side and thus deny any responsibility for your use of it.
Johannes Knabe (jknabe@panmental.de)
v0.2 Hatfield, UK, 02.11.2007 (2007/Nov/02) - Now also corrects typos or swapped letters in the URL
v0.1 Hatfield, UK, 01.11.2007 (2007/Nov/01)
My Homepage is http://panmental.de