[LOSTWAGES] fix .htaccess

[Jonathan Ernst]

Yeah it seems to send the correct header now. Thanks. I'll run
linkchecker again on winehq maybe tomorrow.


Le mercredi 02 novembre 2005 à 16:14 -0600, Jeremy Newman a écrit :
> I've run into this before. Problem is that if I use a local URL it
> breaks the website images for the 404 page. This is due to the local
> path not matching what the URL reads. I get around it by using the
> redirect.
> 
> I did fix the code in the website so when the 404 page is loaded, it
> correctly sends the 404 header. Let me know if that works better for
> you.
> 
> On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 11:26 +0100, Jonathan Ernst wrote:
> > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/core.html#errordocument
> > 
> > Note that when you specify an ErrorDocument that points to a remote URL
> > (ie. anything with a method such as "http" in front of it), Apache *will
> > send a redirect to the client to tell it where to find the document,
> > even if the document ends up being on the same server*. This has several
> > implications, the most important being *that the client will not receive
> > the original error status code*, but instead will receive a redirect
> > status code. This in turn can confuse web robots and other clients
> > which try to determine if a URL is valid using the status code.
> > 
> > I was using linkchecker (http://linkchecker.sourceforge.net/) to check
> > for deadlinks and wondered why some people could still find some
> > deadlinks on winehq. That's because our 404 handler doesn't send an
> > Error 404 message to the user agent.
> > 
> > This change will make apache send a 404 instead of a redirect and will
> > let the original address in the browser's address bar instead of
> > changing it to the /site/404 file. It will also make it easier to check
> > for deadlinks as the error code will be correct now.
> 
> 
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Jonathan Ernst <Jonathan at ErnstFamily.ch>