[Solved] Apache 404 url not working

Question

What you are doing now, is telling the webserver to look for all non-existing pages and directories in another folder (_control). This does not give a solution for typo’s, non-existing pages etc. If you want to solve this, you could use:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^.*/_control/(admin|common).*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^.*/_control/site/.*$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ site/errhandler.php?file=$1 [L]

and make a file called errhandler.php, which displays a custom 404-page and (for example) give possible alternatives based on a database search or whatever. You could then use $_GET['file'] to display the original filename.

Accepted Answer

What you are doing now, is telling the webserver to look for all non-existing pages and directories in another folder (_control). This does not give a solution for typo’s, non-existing pages etc. If you want to solve this, you could use:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^.*/_control/(admin|common).*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^.*/_control/site/.*$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ site/errhandler.php?file=$1 [L]

and make a file called errhandler.php, which displays a custom 404-page and (for example) give possible alternatives based on a database search or whatever. You could then use $_GET['file'] to display the original filename.