Custom 404 pages

visions · 27.01.2005, 01:45

Hi all,

We're wondering how to (or if you can) configure Mambo to not display the home page instead of a standard 404 page when a user goes to a broken link?

We'd like to use standard custom shtml error docs; and not have this as part of the Mambo system.

Is this possible??? anyone? If not does 404SEF allow you to create custom error docs??

Any suggestions would be much appreciated

Thanks!

m2k · 27.01.2005, 05:11

Yes, 404SEF supports this. You can genrate your own custom 404 error. It does NOT default to the home page.

visions · 27.01.2005, 08:43

Thanks,

We'd prefer to just use the usual shtml docs though; is there any way of configuring Mambo just to ignore 404 errors completely?

TVB · 27.01.2005, 19:59

Put the following in your .htaccess file

ErrorDocument 404 /whatever page you want to use

JemHadar · 27.01.2005, 21:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by visions

is there any way of configuring Mambo just to ignore 404 errors completely?

I think you have to put:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php

in your .htaccess to do this.

visions · 29.01.2005, 02:48

Doesn't appear to work - it's still displaying the homepage - my .htaccess file looks like this:

Code:

##
# @version $Id: htaccess.txt,v 1.4 2004/09/16 18:27:17 saka Exp $
# @package Mambo_4.5
# @copyright (C) 2000 - 2004 Miro International Pty Ltd
# @license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU/GPL
# Mambo is Free Software
##
#
#
#  mod_rewrite in use
#

RewriteEngine On

#  Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL 
#  is not directly related to physival file paths.
#  Update YourMamboDirectory (just / for root)

# RewriteBase /YourMamboDirectory

#
#  Rules
#

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php


ErrorDocument 404 /404.htm

I tried removing the ^ after Rewrite Rule too but it didn't make any difference. Where am I going wrong??

Thanks for your help

m2k · 29.01.2005, 07:12

In your .htaccess, mod_rewrite is taking precendence over the Errordocument.

Code:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

ErrorDocument 404 /404.htm

If you take the time to actually understand these directives, it should be obvious that the Errordocument will NEVER come into affect. Your mod_rewrite prevents this. In plan english the statements are:

if the requested filename is not a valid file and the requested filename is not a valid directory then the filename IS index.php Thus any filename which does not exist will be changed to index.php. The same holds true if the filename is not a valid directory. It will be changed to index.php. Accordingly, the Errordocument is never trigger, because the conditions of the mod_rewrite statemenst have already been meet.

visions · 29.01.2005, 10:13

Thankyou so much for taking the time to explain this; as you may have guessed I'm not familar with htaccess commands.

All working fine now; thanks again for your help