404 page not showing URL

Question

My 404 page (/404.php) works, it's sending the proper headers (404 - Not found)

But the thing is, it's not giving the link that caused it (eg example.com/thisisnon-existant.htm) but instead it's giving my 404 page. (example.com/404.php)

How would I get it fixed?

All I did was add the following to .htaccess:

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

My 404 page's code is here: http://pastebin.com/G7mQ4aT1

Answer 1

When you use the full url for ErrorDocument, Apache will always issue a redirect to that location. You want to change your ErrorDocument directive to a relative path instead.

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

Answer 2

Stephen answered your question spot on, but another observation regarding your example code that you linked to, that you might want to remove these lines in your PHP code:

<?php
  header($_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"]." 404 Not Found");
?>

Your web server already responded with 404 when this document would be used and you're just providing a nicer to read error document. There is no need for this document to add a response header indicating 404 error like you did, when it would already be included in a server's response following a request for non-existent location/document.