First, let’s look at why they come up. They come up because someone or something called for a page that simply cannot be loaded for some reason. This may have been accidental, or intentional. They may not even truly be generated by a person.
http://landnew.ru
Haha, I like the Dead end sign. I find that most 404 error pages arise from misconfigured .htaccess files / bad mod-rewrite settings.
Here are one more error page 404 http://www.kontain.com/bickov/entries/36756/page-404/
great article! Thank you for sharing!
Great article! Thank you for sharing!
After a bit of a database problem and a complete redo of my personal site I still seem to get alot of traffic to old urls.
Because of this I’ve already put quite a bit of thinking into my 404 and it seems to be redirecting traffic quite well now.
You can see an example at: http://foobr.co.uk/error/javascript
it looks at the url you are trying to reach, the referrer to see if it is a search-engine and if so can it get any keywords from the query string and then uses this information to display links which might match what you were looking for.
The more relevant the information is the darker background it is placed on.
You always need a 404 page because of the following reasons:
Users may not type a URL correctly
Users may bookmark a URL that is no longer active (site re-organization, etc.)
However, supplying the default 404 page is not very good.
Here’s my now defunct football site:
Now type in this:
http://www.oneweekwonder.com/xyz
That’s my 404 page, doesn’t even say 404 because 404 is useless to non technie, but this page is plenty useful to get people back to the areas they were in.
With IIS it is easy to overwrite the 404 response pages and any other HTTP error page. Not sure about other web servers.
Create custom 404 pages in PHP:
http://members.cox.net/midian/tutorials/php404.htm
http://members.cox.net/midian/tutorials/php404search.htm
How is it that a web site that blogs about the importance of good 404 pages does not even have one?
http://www.codinghorror.com/gimmea404.htm
I am blown away. Simply shocked.
Using 404 is making user more friendly
I accept we can config in Most Server with Asp, Php, CFM, Asp.net
www.cambodia-tourism.org/news is work fine for me
