Suzanne — Sun, 02 Nov 2003 20:10:09 +0000

cubdriver wrote: Helas, I only made matters worse by using the full url. I began to get infinite regressions, so instead of one call repeated 23,000 times, I got fewer calls of such things as http://www.yourdomain.com/
www.yourdomain.com/www.yourdomain.com/error404.htm

So I deleted the 404 call from htaccess.

Sigh!

Would you please post what you had, exactly? Turn off the "automatically parse URLS" bit when you post.

cubdriver — Sun, 02 Nov 2003 20:06:33 +0000

Helas, I only made matters worse by using the full url. I began to get infinite regressions, so instead of one call repeated 23,000 times, I got fewer calls of such things as http://www.yourdomain.com/www.yourdomain.com/www.yourdomain.com/error404.htm

So I deleted the 404 call from htaccess.

Sigh!

cubdriver — Sun, 26 Oct 2003 10:17:34 +0000

Suzanne wrote: no no, I mean only on your 404 page. Relative links aren't a problem, just for the 404 page itself.

Also, you need to have the full url for your 404 page:

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.yourdomain.com/error404.htm

Thank you, Suzanne. Will fix forthwith! - Dan

Suzanne — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 23:07:13 +0000

no no, I mean only on your 404 page. Relative links aren't a problem, just for the 404 page itself.

Also, you need to have the full url for your 404 page:

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.yourdomain.com/error404.htm

cubdriver — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 23:01:34 +0000

1. put a redirect for all non-existent pages to your front page or something

I did this for the one obvious case.

2. make sure you're not using relative urls (use http://yourdomain.com/page.html et cetera) as (badly written) spiders get caught in them on occasion.

Oh dear. I have thousands of relative urls on my site. Is that the problem?

3. what is the code you're using for the 404 in the .htaccess?

ErrorDocument 404 error404.htm

Many thanks - Dan

Suzanne — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:09:42 +0000

1. put a redirect for all non-existent pages to your front page or something

2. make sure you're not using relative urls (use http://yourdomain.com/page.html et cetera) as (badly written) spiders get caught in them on occasion.

3. what is the code you're using for the 404 in the .htaccess?