Improved 404 Error Handling
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 | Topic: Improved 404 Error Handling | |
I have removed 404 error handling from the CMS. When content was requested from the database, the CMS would generate a 404 error message if the requested records didn’t exist but the 404 page would be delivered with a “200” status code (despite my own rant about this). I have written a couple of Apache handlers that intercept the request phase, check the database for the existence of the requested record(s) then either generate a proper 404 (record doesn’t exist) or pass control back to Apache (record does exist). Should look a little better to the search engines now - as well as making my access logs a little more accurate! :-) |
