Advanced 404 Tracking Mod/Add-on

This is a little product i made to track where my 404's were coming from.

This ONLY works for vbseo-enabled sites, and which is why i'm releasing here instead of .org/etc.

This DOES require 1 file edit, misc.php, so be sure to read the read-me file and follow the instructions.



I haven't tested this elsewhere, so please report any bugs here in this thread.

Performance Notes:

• Adds 1 query to 404 pages only. Normal site operations un-effected.
• Logs like this can grow pretty large. it may be wise to manually truncate your four0four table from time to time. This is NOT built in.

Mods, if you move this, please keep a re-direct enabled as this link will be in the read-me.

Thanks, this will be useful.

Thanks Briansol!

Would this still work if we have set a 301 redirect in vBSEO in case of a 404 ?

no, this only works for the 'include custom script' option.

My log is just this repeated. Any idea what that is from?

Code:

/vbstatus/clientscript/yui/yahoo-dom-event/clientscript/yui/yahoo-dom-event/clientscript/yui/yahoo-dom-event/clientscript/yui/yahoo-dom-event/clientscript/yui/connection/clientscript/yui/connection/vbstatus/vbstatus/vbstatus/vbstatus/clientscript/yui/yaho

There's a lot of things that track that don't make sense.

Whats the user agent on it? bots sometimes do wierd things.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)

How do we clear the log?
Googlebot is making me angry, it's filling my logs looking for forum.php in all the ways it can :S

you can run from phpmyadmin,

Code:

truncate table four0four

add your prefix if you use one, ala vb_four0four


BE CAREFUL with truncate. there is no undo!!!

ty Brian :P

Brian,

The log kind of duplicates entries...when i went to a page that doesnt exist and checked the log, it has 2 entries one with my SN and one as a guest.....is this supposed to happen?

Thanks

ah neat - I'll probably use this at some point. fortunately I don't get much traffic to my 404 page.

Originally Posted by nymyth

Brian,

The log kind of duplicates entries...when i went to a page that doesnt exist and checked the log, it has 2 entries one with my SN and one as a guest.....is this supposed to happen?

Thanks

no, its not...

unless you're doing some sort of double re-direct or something? i don't know.

any one else see this happening? I checked my logs and don't see it.

Originally Posted by tavenger5

ah neat - I'll probably use this at some point. fortunately I don't get much traffic to my 404 page.

you'd be suprised!!

I racked up over 100k records in less than a month!


and because of this, i knew what they were trying to find, so i set up a custom redirect to the new source

not sure about a double redirect.....I double checked the edits and it looks right....weird...on a separate note, on whos online, how can i change unknown location to read something like 404 Page?

Thanks

I racked up over 100k records in less than a month!


and because of this, i knew what they were trying to find, so i set up a custom redirect to the new source

It's the reason I want to add this mod.....its a great idea.... :thumbsUp: lol