RC8 - Forums in Subdomain - Invalid URLs give blank page when in /

[Ace Shattock]

Sorry bout the convoluted title..

http://www.nzboards.com/invalidpage.php - blank page

http://www.nzboards.com/forums/invalidpage.php - redirects nicely.

[xb_]

I noticed the blank page did gave a 404 status code. I'm asuming your setting is "Redirect to homepage", though.

[Ace Shattock]

It is indeed 'Redirect to Homepage'.

You got a 404? I just get a blank page. :(

[xb_]

The status code is only present in the headers which are returned, it is indeed accompanied with a blank page. Since it is a script which returns the header, instead of the server itself (the server probally would've given the page wich is configured in an ErrorDocument directive, next to the status code).

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:17:21 GMT
Server: <not-relevant>
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

I'm using a local proxy to view these headers... More about status codes and the HTTP/1.1 protocol here

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Sorry bout the convoluted title..

http://www.nzboards.com/invalidpage.php - blank page

http://www.nzboards.com/forums/invalidpage.php - redirects nicely.

Hi!
I suppose you have vBSEO installed in the forums/ subfolder. In this case, vBSEO doesn't affect the incorrect URLs that reside 'upper'.
The solution may be as following - add the .htaccess file to the root folder of your server with these rules:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ / [R=301]

Let us know how it works

[Ace Shattock]

Alrighty then! It now redirects to www.nzboards.com!

[Ace Shattock]

I have at the top, this:

RewriteEngine On
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}  !^www\.nzboards\.com$       [NC]
 RewriteRule ^(.*)         http://www.nzboards.com/$1  [L,R=301]

Will this cause problems?

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Will this cause problems?

No problem here, there will be no conflicts with these rules.