On Thursday, July 14, 2005, at 10:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi Bill,
Thanks for answering.
A question or two if you please...
I am running IIS5 on a Win2k server. In order to do redirects, the
files have to already exist. I was hoping for something a bit more
elegant then this. We are talking of hundreds of files.
Don't know IIS. Apache mod_rewrite allow regular expression pattern
matching so you can do many at once. You should take a look at the
apache docs anyway because they show lots of ways of handling the
situation. You might get some ideas.
What I am looking for is whether it is possible to have the server
return the proper 404 rather then Witango when the application file is
missing. Not sure if this can be done.
Again, apache lets you intercept this before dispatching to the handler
(witango in this case). I presume there are ISAPI filters to do this.
When you say "... have your witango error handler send the appropriate
code," I am not sure what you mean nor how to do this. I am wondering
if anyone has attempted this before in Windoze and what steps I need
to take to return proper headers when files aren't found.
Or have Witango manage it. In your error handler:
if mainerror = 3 {
if requested file is in list of old files {
<@PURGERESULTS><@ASSIGN SCOPE="request" NAME="httpheader"
VALUE="HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found<@crlf> <@crlf>">
return action
}
else {
continue with error handler
}
Thanks!
Presumably you have an error trap for Witango Main Error 3 (file not
found) that displays your error page. The error page is a valid page
so it should return 200 OK.
You need to have your web server return a 404 Not Found, 302
Redirect, or 301 Moved in response to these requests, before the
Witango error handler is invoked. See apache mod_rewrite.
Or have your witango error handler send the appropriate code.
bill
On Thursday, July 14, 2005, at 08:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I know this has come up before, but I need a little help.
I redid a site and all the taf file names have been changed. I
wanted to use the Google URL removal tool to get rid of the old taf
files. They are still being crawled by Google but all the links end
up pointing to the default Witango error page. In fact, after years
of using Witango, I have noticed that Google will keep crawling
these pages because, according to Google, they still exist and
return as 200 Object Found pages. On 40 websites, I have many of
these links that are still being indexed by Google and I want to
clean up all the sites and remove the dead URLS. Google requests
that all pages listed for removal be a 404 page. In otherwords, a
true Object Not Found page. I did a header check on one of the dead
URLs and have found that Witango treats the error page as a 200
Object Found. Is there any way to change the header info and have
Witango treat these pages as a 404 pages? Eventually, Google will
drop them if I could figure this one out.
Thanks.
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