$action is something that PHP automatically does for you, when you do URL.php?action=WHATEVER...it doesn't have to be action either it could be URL.php?url=WHATEVER then you would just replace $action with $url, anyways this is what I do...

take out the space between the h and the ttp: hopes this helps.

i used this to set the homepage as a default. However its not as efficent as id like. You see the problem im having is that i want to set the action of main
if ($action == "home") {
include ("http://www.proxymx.com/main.php");
as the loaded include when you load index.php
so i set it out like so

if ($action == "home") {
include ("http://www.proxymx.com/main.php");
} elseif ($action == "legal") {
include ("http://www.proxymx.com/legal.php");
}
else include ('http://www.proxymx.com/main.php');

However, this presents a problem, if a page isnt found on request, it simply directs the user back to the mainpage.

What i want to do is when a user enters the site {index.php} i want them to see the main.php page included. And then use actions such as ?action=forums for other pages
the code i used is sufficent to do so, however if ever a page is not found, it simply returns to the mainpage, when i want it to display the standard error pages if a page is not found.

So in short what i want to do is set the main.php as the default include when a user loads index.php, However if they type the wrong action i want the standard error messages to show up

Well you could try this

then you just upload the 404.html (or .htm i dunno) from you comp to the site and that's what will get displayed if the page isn't found. if you can't find the 404.html just type in a random URL and when the 404 error comes up just go File/Save As...

defeats the purpose :P

no it doesn't because it's saying if it doesn't find the page display an error, it just takes a little bit more work and it does exactly what u wanted it to do.

But then there would be no way to set the home as a deafult

Then try this

there, i believe that solves your problem.