Comments on: How to make a useful & dynamic 404 page http://www.yellow-llama.com/how-to-make-a-useful-dynamic-404-page/ Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:16:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cosmin http://www.yellow-llama.com/how-to-make-a-useful-dynamic-404-page/comment-page-1/#comment-16960 Cosmin Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:13:29 +0000 http://www.yellow-llama.com/how-to-make-a-useful-dynamic-404-page/#comment-16960 very useful, thanks mate! very useful, thanks mate!

]]> By: sparsh http://www.yellow-llama.com/how-to-make-a-useful-dynamic-404-page/comment-page-1/#comment-9426 sparsh Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:01:00 +0000 http://www.yellow-llama.com/how-to-make-a-useful-dynamic-404-page/#comment-9426 we need website for adventure acadenmy in this website more than 25 pages content we need logo design, domain + hosting ,website design and also maintenance in this website we need flash banner also.. please provide us flash presentation price, presentance is more than 1 min... waiting for reasonable quote Thanks Sparsh we need website for adventure acadenmy
in this website more than 25 pages content
we need logo design, domain + hosting ,website design and also maintenance

in this website we need flash banner also..

please provide us flash presentation price, presentance is more than 1 min…

waiting for reasonable quote

Thanks
Sparsh

]]> By: MarkB http://www.yellow-llama.com/how-to-make-a-useful-dynamic-404-page/comment-page-1/#comment-8039 MarkB Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:51:34 +0000 http://www.yellow-llama.com/how-to-make-a-useful-dynamic-404-page/#comment-8039 Well put Mr eel. Thanks for your comments. A 301 redirect would also be a great means of overcoming this type of problem. However when you have a few hundred blog posts, it'd be difficult specify each & every post that would need a redirect. On another site I developped: www.sanbi.ac.za, they had a large number of older pages which moved to ww2.sanbi.ac.za. I used this dynamic method to generate a meta refresh tag with the newly created URL so that the user was automatically sent to the ww2 site. Many ways to skin a cat :) Well put Mr eel. Thanks for your comments.

A 301 redirect would also be a great means of overcoming this type of problem. However when you have a few hundred blog posts, it’d be difficult specify each & every post that would need a redirect.

On another site I developped: http://www.sanbi.ac.za, they had a large number of older pages which moved to ww2.sanbi.ac.za. I used this dynamic method to generate a meta refresh tag with the newly created URL so that the user was automatically sent to the ww2 site.

Many ways to skin a cat :)

]]> By: Mr eel http://www.yellow-llama.com/how-to-make-a-useful-dynamic-404-page/comment-page-1/#comment-8035 Mr eel Tue, 21 Nov 2006 04:59:01 +0000 http://www.yellow-llama.com/how-to-make-a-useful-dynamic-404-page/#comment-8035 You reccomendations are spot on. A good 404 page can go a long way to helping people get what they want. That said, a 404 page alone isn't enough if you're changing the URL structure. In addition the server should be configured to use the 301 http code for permanent redirect, which would just transparently push the user onto the correct URL without them hitting a 404 page. It's not particularly difficult if the site's previous URLs adhere to some system, i.e. you can determine what the new url should be. It's trivial with blogs for example. For any site with a large amount of traffic, this is a much better solution than a 404 alone. for reference: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_alias.html#redirectpermanent the only tricky part is figuring out the regular expression you need if you're not familiar with them :) You reccomendations are spot on. A good 404 page can go a long way to helping people get what they want. That said, a 404 page alone isn’t enough if you’re changing the URL structure.

In addition the server should be configured to use the 301 http code for permanent redirect, which would just transparently push the user onto the correct URL without them hitting a 404 page.

It’s not particularly difficult if the site’s previous URLs adhere to some system, i.e. you can determine what the new url should be. It’s trivial with blogs for example.

For any site with a large amount of traffic, this is a much better solution than a 404 alone.

for reference:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_alias.html#redirectpermanent

the only tricky part is figuring out the regular expression you need if you’re not familiar with them :)

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