404 pages aren't being served for incorrect urls ending in .php

Joobs · 29 Mar 2009 at 23:02

I have a weird problem on a clients server. If you type in an incorrect url which ends in .php it doesnt show a 404 page and returns a blank page with a 200 header.

www.example.com/nothere/ - gives servers 404 page
www.example.com/nothere.html - gives servers 404 page
www.example.com/nothere.php - gives blank page with 200 header.

Any ideas what is causing this? disabled all my htacess and i removed my CMS files...

Pho · 30 Mar 2009 at 10:27

IIS, Apache?

probedb · 30 Mar 2009 at 13:12

Sounds like a server config issue.

Joobs · 30 Mar 2009 at 14:22

It's an apache server.

I've contacted my clients host, but so far he hasn't been able to solve the issue.

Whitman · 30 Mar 2009 at 14:25

I'm guessing it's fixed as it's showing me a 404 error.

Joobs · 30 Mar 2009 at 14:26

Whitman said:
I'm guessing it's fixed as it's showing me a 404 error.

example.com isnt my website! i was using it as an example...

Pho · 30 Mar 2009 at 14:47

What happens if you specify an error document in .htaccss?

PHP:

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.example.com/error.php

- for example.

Joobs · 30 Mar 2009 at 14:54

directories and html files that dont exist get forwarded to the error page specified (the url actually changes, I thought it just serves that file but the url should stay the same?)

php files that dont exist still produce a blank white page

Whitman · 30 Mar 2009 at 15:22

Joobs said:
example.com isnt my website! i was using it as an example...

Oops, should have read that properly. Sounds similar to an fcgi issue - http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q="No+input+file+specified"+php+fcgi&btnG=Search&meta=