Getting requested URL in custom error pages

[Blake]

I'm making custom error pages for my website. I would like the 404 error page to say something along the lines of

Error 404: Requested URL [filename] not found on server.

where [filename] is the name of the file/directory requested. The problem I'm having involved actually getting that file name. I've tried the following:



<h1>Error 404</h1><br>Requested URL <?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?> not found on server.


However, instead of giving me the requested page, $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] gives me the url of the error page.

How would I get the URL of the requested page instead of the url of the error page?

[thetestingsite]

You should be able to use $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] or $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] (< spelling?). Although, not 100&#37; sure without testing it.

Hope this helps though.

[tech_support]

It's
$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']

[Twey]

$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] (< spelling?)Wrong, but the header's spelt incorrectly too, so you're right :) The word is usually "referrer."

However, this shouldn't be the case. Referer should, in this case, be the URL to the page with the dead link. You really want $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].