.htaccess problem

Hi,

i have problem with .htaccess redirection problem

the file is

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule .* index.php [QSA,L]
<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>


now problem is with 404 pages. for invalid urls also it redirects to my homepage. and it shows respoce as 200.

any one can help me out to get actual 404 responce instead of 200

 

If you're only trying to redirect dead URLs...

ErrorDocument 404 /whatever.html

 

i don't want to redirect 404 pages at all. i want normal 404 browser responce for thos url.

e.g.

http://www.cyborginfo.com/sghfghjsdf

this shows my home page

i want normal 404 page can be display in place of that.

 

I'm not sure if that redirects or shows the content from that page. Change whatever.html to anything and try that out. If that doesn't do it, I don't know what the code is for it.

 

thanks for the help Nintendo .

if i redirect it to another.html still i wil receive 200 as responce.
google site map or any search engin bots have problems with this kind of false responce.
i want redirects except 404. i am unsure how i can exclude 404 redirects from above code.

 

I'm not even sure what 200 is. Try different numbers in the code.

 

generate a custom 404 that also sends you an e-mail.
(you could use a second homepage with a noindex in it)

refine the inital redirect to capture what it should do

a 301 to a 404 is not uncommon - but keep it to a minimum as it may be seen as s**m

The emails will tell you which pages to look at.

I would not generally redirect to index (or home) as it maybe hard to find problems on your site once this is in. I use a second homepage with noindex to capture this if I have to redirect to the equivalent of home but also put in a simple mail so I know which requests cause poblems.


Expat

 

The problem is that your RewriteConds will redirect any file which doesn't exist to your index page - and these are exactly the files that should return a 404 error.

Remove

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule .* index.php [QSA,L]

Code (markup):

from your .htaccess and replace with

ErrorDocument 404 /404.html

Code (markup):

Then create the file 404.html telling the user that the page they were after couldn't be found. This will return the correct 404 error in the HTTP header.

If you just want visitors to see the index page if the file couldn't be found, use

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

Code (markup):

The correct 404 header will still be returned.

Nintendo, 200 is "OK" status code in HTTP

cheers

johnt

 

thanks for your help Johnt.

i think i am not provideing enough of details. i am sorry for incomplete that.

i am using david's phplinkdirectory script for my directory.
this script entirely works on .htaccess redirection rule. and back end mysql bakend (david, correct me if i am wrong)

if i remove any of existing line script don't work properly.
so i am looking for solution that will go along with existing code.

 

Ah, I see. In that case, you can't accomplish 404 errors by using your .htaccess file. What you will have to do is edit the script so that if it doesn't find the correct entry in the database it returns a 404 header. This can be done by using output buffering and

header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");

PHP:

Hope this helps

John

 

i will give a try.

PHP coding is not my baby. i am not programmer.

thanks once again to show way out john