invalid pages

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just curious. shouldn’t any accesses to a non existent page lead to a 404 or similar page not found error message ?

for example , if i try http://www.techenclave.com/forum , i get

Warning: main(/home/techencl/public_html/includes/init.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/techencl/public_html/forums/global.php on line 20

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘/home/techencl/public_html/includes/init.php’ (include_path=‘.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/techencl/public_html/forums/global.php on line 20

shouldn’t it lead to a generic 404 style page not found message?

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There is no hard and fast rule here. It is all up to how you set up your webserver. If you just pass the string (file name) to a php script, no questions asked, then the php script will throw errors I guess, not the webserver.

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but i tried it on a few other forums running vbulletin, and just to be doubly sure ,some others running vbadvanced, and this error didnt show up. some went blank, some showed a redirect page, but a php error was definitely not expected

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There is an option to create error pages that will be loaded if an error occures. Maybe the sites incorporate the error handling system.