Posted by Philip Ronan on 12/06/05 16:15

"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.

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