If action does not exist, redirect where I want.

[Biology Forums]

Hello all,

What I want is if the action does not exist, I want the server to redirect to a page that I want. What file do I edit and how.

http://website.com/index.php?action=somefakeactionthatdoesntexist > redirects to > what I want.

[Arantor]

Edit index.php where it sets up the action list, and near the end of that it returns 'BoardIndex' if no valid action was found, you'd use redirectexit in there.

[Kindred]

I believe there was a 404 mod that did just this -- it even allowed you to build a "pretty" page

[Arantor]

The 404 mod just handled actual 404s, not missing actions (which are handled by SMF itself)

Actually I'd be inclined to make non-existant actions actually throw an error rather than falling back to the board index.

[Kindred]

Yeah... they probably should.

However....
I do swear that I dealt with a mod some time ago that DID handle even incorrect actions
(I remember testing with action=blah )
but I can't find it on the site now...

[Biology Forums]

Thank you for the detailed response.

[Biology Forums]

In 1.x:

Find in index.php:

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// Fall through to the board index then...
require_once($sourcedir . '/BoardIndex.php');
return 'BoardIndex';

Replace with:

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// Fall through to the board index then...
header('Location: /index.php?action=error');
die();

Need to create an action called error.

Hope this helps others down the road.