[koberulz]

Occasionally, the 404 error page I've created will show up, but the URL in the address bar will remain that of the page that was not found. Due to this usually being in a subfolder, this ruins the display of the page and results in the links on the 404 page returning 404 errors, since everything's up one folder. Is there a way to fix that?

[d3iti]

Hi koberulz,

I am also interested in the subject, but the normal response on the servers that I know is to keep the invalid address in the address bar of your browser.

Do you know web page where happens what you're looking for?

[Bad Karma[CORE]]

care to post a link to the site?

[koberulz]

http://koberulz.webege.com/Blog/2010/24012010.php

It used to redirect to http://koberulz.webege.com/Errors/404notfound.php, which allowed the links to work, but now it doesn't. I've changed the links so that they work for now, though. This started happening about the same time as the 404 error started showing up on a page that actually existed (which I also have a thread about), though that 404 page actually works properly.

[willypt]

When I try to connect to your site, why a modem login box popped-up? Do you use your home IP as a webserver? If so, you have to configure your modem to match your in and out port and LAN IP

[koberulz]

I've no idea what any of that even means. I created an account, and used FileZilla to upload a few .php files. Nothing complicated.

[drums]

Hi koberulz,

The reason you're getting a problem is that your CSS reference is using a relative url (ie: ../css/main.css)

There are a couple of solutions to your "broken" error pages

1) is if you wish to use relative URLs, then add some html to your page to force a particular base URL as follows:

<base href="http://koberulz.webege.com/Blog/" />

2) Don't use any relative URLs.

drums

[koberulz]

I understand that it's broken because of the relative URLs, but it was working before, which is the issue. The URL in the address bar was always koberulz.webege.com/Errors/404notfound.php, rather than whatever had been typed in to produce the 404 error.

If the URL of the missing page is meant to stay in the address bar, I guess I'll go through and remove all the relativity then.

[drums]

Hi Koberulz,

The correct way for Errordocuments to work is to leave the URL as the incorrectly entered URL and set the 404 status in the HTTP header.

This allows spiders/robots to recognise that the URL being shown is incorrect and not a correct URL which is redirecting to a broken URL (which is what would change the address bar in the browser).

Having said that, you'll still need to resolve your relative URL issue. If you have lots of relative URLs, the the quickest way is definitely to add the base directive that I mentioned earlier, as you only need to do it once in your html doc.

drums

[koberulz]

If someone gets a 404 error elsewhere (for example the Updates page that is returning the 404 error my other thread explains), however, the base directive will screw up that error page, will it not?

It's only one or two links per page, it's not too big a deal. It's just that as I said, it was displaying the 404 page's URL before, so the links worked.