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Re: An easy way to make your 404 pages useful!

michaelsowa

Hi John,

I see what you are saying with that page.  Its because its a rewritten
URL and the underlying URL for product ID 853 does exist but the
product does not so the product page 301 redirects to our custom 404
page.  So its not handled like a standard 404. (Will look into seeing
if this is possible though)  http://www.memorycardzoo.co.uk/power+traveller
should give a proper 404 page and it is a product we sell but nothing
is returned.

Also the script error I get, I get for all the 404 page examples
posted on here.  I do have all errors turned on in IE7.0 though.
"Unknown runtime error" line 10. (If that helps any :S)

Thanks

Mike

On Aug 19, 8:05 pm, JohnMu wrote:

> Hi developdaly
> I tried it out on your site, but there's a problem with the 404 pages
> -- they redirect to an error page, which makes the widget try to
> suggest alternatives for the error page :-(

> For example, when I try:http://www.memorycardzoo.co.uk/53/Lexar/JumpDrive-Lightning/4GB/
> (instead of /853/...) it redirects me tohttp://www.memorycardzoo.co.uk/error/404.aspx?page=%2f53%2fLexar%2fJu...
> which is hard to find a match for... A clean 404 would be great, if
> that's possible. I did however notice that your system handles typos
> in the rest of the URL really nicely, cool!

> Hi JLH,
> The problem is not that things will break completely, but rather that
> in the worst case, we'll only be able to show a site-search box. As in
> your case, the /monkeys URL is not something we could correct to
> anything sensible (at least as far as I can tell :-)). A URL likehttp://www.jlh-design.com/contactt/however, would probably be
> something we could suggest something better for.

> Also, this is one situation where a HTML sitemap page actually makes
> sense: provided we can find it, we'll link to it as well.

> John