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

Actualy I only asked cause I was going to use that script above to block the adsense ads from displaying on my 404 page.

So is it cool to do that?

Damn, I can usually get stuff to work but not this.

Create custom_404 - check
Create 404.php - check
Enter path in vBSEO CP - check

My 404.php is at /forum/404.php and that's the path I specified but I get a blank page:

http://www.hostnexus.com/forum/llhjkhjhjk

I have a different 404.php in the site root and I don't really want a forum 404 page as a site-wide 404. I have the site wide 404.php working via .htaccess:

http://www.hostnexus.com/lll

Any ideas?

TeryxHQ,

you can try this instead, to affect 404 pages *only*:

HTML Code:

<if condition="$_REQUEST['do'] != '404'">
#your adsense code#
</if>

Hello Ivor,

please try to specify the for Custom 404 handler either "404.php" or full name, including path, similar to:

Code:

/home/site/public_html/forum/404.php

In vBSEO I have the path:

/home/httpd/vhosts/hostnexus.com/httpdocs/forum/404.php

(which is correct for Plesk systems)

It seems to work correctly for me now: http://www.hostnexus.com/forum/llhjkhjhjk

Indded, how bizarre. Earlier on this thread someone had this exact same behaviour. Maybe a cache thing or something. Happy though.

Originally Posted by Keith Cohen

Then, in your vBSEO Control Panel, for the "File Not Found" requests handling? setting, enter the following. Again, you will need to customize this to point to the actual physical location of the 404.php file that you created in the previous step.

Code:

/usr/home/username/public_html/404.php

Ok I am either too tired or plain stupid... where do I find this setting?

Originally Posted by Chips

Ok I am either too tired or plain stupid... where do I find this setting?

vBSEOCP » General Settings » vBSEO Options » "File Not Found" requests handling?

Just setup this and having a slight problem. :/ When going to my 404 page this happens.
http://cybersteroids.com/404.php

PHP Code:

Warning:  require_once(./global.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/anithaxe/public_html/forums/misc.php on line 88

Fatal error:  require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/anithaxe/public_html/forums/misc.php on line 88 


You should create 404.php in forums/ folder, not in domain root (and update "4040 handler" filename in vBSEO CP correspondingly).

Originally Posted by exceem

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.

I too am having the 'unknown location' issuse for members.

Originally Posted by paintballer.ie

I too am having the 'unknown location' issuse for members.

The answer is here: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...known+location

Add the following line near the top of your .htaccess file:

PHP Code:

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php 


edit: That doesn't seem to resolve the issue.

I still see

Unknown Location
/vmoods/images/none.gif

for members who do not have a mood selected in the vMoods add-on.

To avoid regustering "not found" requests in who is online list you should apply this fix: Create a Custom vBulletin "404 Page Not Found" Page, and direct vBSEO to use it.

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.

Doing this will make it appear to any logged in members who arrive at the 404 page that they have been logged out, although that obviously is not the case.