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

Originally Posted by briansol

install vbseo

Done! But now my custom 404 page no longer works.

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I take it back. It's fixed now. I had to do the third step and give the path to my 404.php file.

I see there are a lot of google analytics options. Does it matter if I enable those or leave my existing analytics code in the footer?

-Raymond

i would pull the template edit and use vbseo's.

you won't have any reverts in the footer on upgrades, plus vbseo does segmentation tracking variables as well already coded for you (and will be enchanced in the next version as well)

Just tried to implement this but, when I try it out by going to some non-existant page on my website, I get this...

Warning: require_once(./global.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/dccollec/public_html/forum/misc.php on line 85

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php52/pear') in /home/dccollec/public_html/forum/misc.php on line 85

Here is some more info as well...

Looks like it works fine for a 404 page inside my forum directory but, outside such as http://www.dccollector.com/example I get the above error...

Seems like the path in red you edited was incorrect.

here is what I put in vbseo

/home/****/public_html/404.php

and here is what I put int he 404.php file

/home/****/public_html/forum/misc.php

Also check out my 404 page... Let me know what you think...

http://www.dccollector.com/forum/adfadsf

Is it a little to harsh?

I am not seeing any errors on that page. Where are you experiencing them?

It is outside of the forum. Like if I went to http://www.dccollector.com/asdfasdf

Anything inside the forum directory works but outside of it is the problem...

If I am not mistaken, vBSEO only covers the 404 in directories below it, so that would not work.

ah... Thanks for the info...

Is there anyway to exclude analytics from being added to these 404 pages and the invalid thread pages? It's really annoying having porn threads (which I've deleted) show up in my analytics

you could wrap your analytics with an if THIS_SCRIPT = misc conditional. It will require hard-editing of the vbseo file though

This might be the wrong place to ask, however I've just disabled browsing using

Code:

options -indexes

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/)
#RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^die16-clan\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://die16-clan.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?)?)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

Would it be possible to redirect people to a 404.php instead?

Originally Posted by Lowfyr

oh and btw. you can exclude adsense with this condition

Code:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT != 'misc'">
#your adsense code#
</if>

but please note that this condition excludes your adsense from all misc sites.

Please forgive my ignorance, however, what sites would be considered "misc sites"

misc.php runs stuff like the emoticon popup, buddylist, whoposted, and a couple other 'misc' scripts.


using options -indexes is pretty pointless in vb, because vb comes with blank index.html files in all directories besides root, thus making them non-directory viewable.

if you want to send them to a 404 page instead, you'll have to edit all the folders index.html files and probably do a meta refresh to 404.php, or an SSI include of 404.php