Create a Custom vBulletin "404 Page Not Found" Page, and direct vBSEO to use it.

**FightRice** · 10-20-2008 07:37 PM

Any benefit of using the file edits to get the tag cloud on misc.php over using a plugin/product to achieve it?

Here's mine, its personalized so if a logged in member finds it, it spits back their username

HTML Code:

$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
 <!-- no cache headers -->
 <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
 <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />
 <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
 <!-- end no cache headers -->
 $headinclude
 <title>404 Error Page Not Found - <phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_powered_by_vbulletin]</phrase></title>
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar
<br />
<div style="padding-left: 25px; padding-right: 25px; font-weight: bold; background: white; font-size: 13px;">
<br />
<h2>Sorry <if condition="$show[member]">$bbuserinfo[username] </if>Page can not be found</h2>
<p>We're sorry but, <a href="http://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]" rel="nofollow">the page</a>  you have requested cannot be found.</p>
<if condition="$show[guest]"><p>You can try to find what your looking for using the search box below, or why not <a href="register.php" rel="nofollow">register/login</a> and enjoy all the features and information we do have to offer</p></if>

<style type="text/css">
  #goog-wm { }
  #goog-wm h3.closest-match { }
  #goog-wm h3.closest-match a { }
  #goog-wm h3.other-things { }
  #goog-wm ul li { }
  #goog-wm li.search-goog { display: block; }
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
  var GOOG_FIXURL_LANG = 'en';
  var GOOG_FIXURL_SITE = 'http://seotips4.com/';
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" 
    src="http://linkhelp.clients.google.com/tbproxy/lh/wm/fixurl.js"></script>
<ul>
<li><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/search.php">Forum Search Engine</a></li>
<li>Return to the <a href="/">homepage</a></li>
</ul>
$vbcloud
<br />
</div>
$footer
</body>
</html>

**Mert Gökçeimam** · 10-20-2008 08:40 PM

If you want to use plugin system create a new plugin with the following info :

Plugin Name : 404 Display Page
Hook Name : misc_start
Executiın Order : 5
and choose one of Brian's suggested code.

**briansol** · 10-21-2008 12:42 AM

If there was a hook available where i needed it, i would have used it.

You can get the templates in with cache_templates hook.

and you can get the requires in with misc_start

but, you can't get inside

Code:

if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'page' AND $vbulletin->GPC['template'] != '')

because there's no hook there.

I know, it's a pain when upgrade time comes around :(

**Mert Gökçeimam** · 10-21-2008 08:58 AM

Honestly Brian , i miss the days when we used to upgrade our old forums. Upgrading was fun then. Now it is pretty easy and doesn't allow webmasters to learn anything. Thats why i usually still modify code on my sites which of course allow me to save resources on my server also. File edits always perform better perfonmance then plugins.

**raymond** · 11-03-2008 10:59 PM

I've upgraded from PunBB to vBulletin and all of my links changed.

I'd like to do it in a much easier way, which is instead of displaying "Page Not Found", how can I make vBulletin redirect to my main forum page?

**Mert Gökçeimam** · 11-03-2008 11:26 PM

Please check : 404 / 301 Tool After Import Redirect on ImpEx imported forums

**raymond** · 11-03-2008 11:57 PM

Thanks but unfortunately the 404 script doesn't support PunBB :(

**Mert Gökçeimam** · 11-04-2008 12:47 AM

If you supply your url formats in that thread maybe we can supplu you the correct version.

**raymond** · 11-04-2008 01:22 AM

I just saw an option to redirect to the main forum page in vbseo mod. Thanks.

**simonvlc** · 11-15-2008 06:30 AM

Hi there,

first of all, thanks for this great post

.

I have a question regarding http status code. After some tests, I noticed that this 404 are returning 200 status code:

#1 Server Response: http://example.org/forums/sffd
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:34:59 GMT
Server: Apache
Status: 404 Not Found
Set-Cookie: bblastactivity=0; expires=Sun, 15-Nov-2009 10:34:59 GMT; path=/
Cache-Control: private, max-age=1
Pragma: private
X-UA-Compatible: IE=7
Expires: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:35:00 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Is that fine? Shouldn´t the server return a 404 status code?

Thanks in advance, Simon.

**popowich** · 11-15-2008 01:36 PM

Hello,

Thank you for the 404.php file!

I used a combination of the 404.php from the first post in this thread and the advanced 404 error pages code from the google webmaster tools site.

The result is a custom 404 error page that also includes a local google powered search.

Demo.

All you need to do is replace this line with the goggle code:

You can try a <a href="$vboptions[bburl]/search.php">search</a> if you are looking for something specific.

I am not a vBSEO customer so I needed to use an apache directive to enable the error page.

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

Any suggestions for improving this combination?

-Raymond

PS: When registering the options page needs 3.7.4 added to the vBulletin version selections.

**briansol** · 11-15-2008 03:50 PM

Any suggestions for improving this combination?

install vbseo

**exceem** · 11-20-2008 04:32 AM

Originally Posted by BamaStangGuy

Everyone that uses this should add:

PHP Code:


define('SKIP_SESSIONCREATE', 1);

to the top of their 404 file so that vBulletin doesn't track your 404 errors in whos online.

Any way to code this so it only does this for un-registered members? when registered members view a error page with this code enabled, and the navbar is visible, it makes them think they are loged out.

**samel** · 11-28-2008 07:02 AM

Thanks for excellent guide. I created a 404 page

How can we make the same effect for pages with broken links
See example:
http://www.insurance-forums.net/foru...ead5096-2.html

Thanks

**samel** · 12-04-2008 04:13 PM

Originally Posted by samel

Thanks for excellent guide. I created a 404 page

How can we make the same effect for pages with broken links
See example:
http://www.insurance-forums.net/foru...ead5096-2.html

Thanks

Hate to quote myself, but did anyone figured how to rewrite the broken links like the one above?

Thanks

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