Using 404.php handler... forum not site root

[bernard]

I'm using Jerry's External Incoming Links 404 handler to redirect old phpbb URIs to the new vB URIs. It was working fine with vBSEO for page requests inside the /forums/ directory.

Is it possible for me to add a custom 404 handler for the rest of my site (ie. root folder, sibling folders like /blog/, etc.), or will an ErrorDocument in the root .htaccess cause problems with the vBSEO 404 system?

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

You can use ErrorDocument in domain root, while keeping vBSEO's rewrite rules in forums/ folder without conflicts.

[class101]

Seem this fonction override our 404 custom pages in htaccess and vbseo settings so when special urls like ///// are sent

function vbseo_404()
{
header ("HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found");
if (defined('VBSEO_STATUS_HEADER') && VBSEO_STATUS_HEADER)
header ("Status: 404 Not Found");
echo 'Page not found';
vbseo_close_db();
exit;
} 

to fix I changed it to

function vbseo_404()
{
header ("HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found");
if (defined('VBSEO_STATUS_HEADER') && VBSEO_STATUS_HEADER)
header ("Status: 404 Not Found");
//echo 'Page not found';
require_once '/home/login/www/404.php';
vbseo_close_db();
exit;
} 

now any urls correctly redirects to my 404.php which is not the case without (and I have ErrorDoc 404 setup in htaccess and custom 404 in vbseo settings)