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Posted by Matt Probert on 12/06/05 19:27
On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:15:50 GMT, Philip Ronan
<invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> "Steve Pugh" wrote:
>
> > Krustov wrote:
> >
> >> TMK if a website uses custom 404 pages then it wont show up as a broken
> >> link .
> >
> > Sometimes yes. But well configured web servers return 404 headers even
> > when displaying a custom 404 page. There are, of course, many badly
> > configured web servers out there.
>
> I think the most common mistake is to use a fully qualified URL in the
> ErrorDocument directive. For example:
>
> ErrorDocument 404 http://example.com/error-docs/not_found.html
>
> will cause the server to issue a 301 redirect header to the error page when
> it can't find the requested document. The eror page will then be served with
> a '200 OK" header.
>
> It's all explained in the Apache documentation.
>
Explained? That's an interesting term to use with regard to the Apache
documentation! I find the Apache documentation to be slightly less
intelligible than if it were written in Ancient Greek.
And as this is being widely cross-posted, perhaps a challenge could go
out for another techinal author - one who can decipher the Apache
documentation - to produce a version which can be widely understood.
Matt
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