how do i get my website to say a custom 404 error when some one tryes to acess a file that dosent exsist?
Thanks in advace

custom 404's are a hosting feature not related to XOOPS at all. Contact your hosting provider for info on if and how to set up a custom 404 page.

You can set up custom error pages with your host, but how about an error-handler within Xoops? When I was checking out PostNuke, it had such a feature.

when a page is requested that doesn't exist, the XOOPS script is bypassed, thus it cannot show a custom error page. Only when the request is made by the XOOPS script itself could this be done. And that is on the to-do list

Herko

For example, you can point to a custom 404 page like this:

ErrorDocument 404 /errors/custom404.html

This is also needed when you want to get the stats to your google sitemaps...

only some 404's are handled by the server and have a 404 returned in the header. Then you can have a custom 404.

However, if the error url has something like /?page_id=8
then XOOPS handles it and it shows the content of the home page. This is a problem that i am trying to solve myself.

When XOOPS handls the a page that does not exist it will also show a 200 in the header and not a 404.

So if you are switching from a different cms to XOOPS and had urls like /?page_id=8 the search engines will see the same content on all you old urls.

So if someone has a fix for this so XOOPS can return a 404 in the header and a custom page... it would be helpful.

I also tried to do a 301 redirect with this typr of url and it also does not work.

I have tried this url on other XOOPS sites and it does the samething so it is not something that is only relivant to me.

I hope i explained myself clearly... i posted in this thread because it was sort of on topic.... if i should have started my own thread please advise and i will.


thanks for any help

dave

I just checked my sitemap at google and noticed the same thing. This is an issue and I would be very glad if someone had a solution that they are using. I don't want to be downgraded by google because XOOPS is reporting 200 when it should be 404.