Custom 404 Page by Siropu 1.2.1

[DotWeb]

It seems there's a bug in the new version. I have set many redirects now, and when I check, it shows only 2 with redirect URLs.

 

[smallwheels]

It

What exactly do you mean with "it"?

seems there's a bug in the new version.

Which new version? The latest one seems to date back to August 2024, so not far from being two years old.

I have set many redirects now, and when I check, it shows only 2 with redirect URLs.

Did the redirects work before (if you say you've set them "now" this does not sound like you had them before)? Is there a possiblity that your redirect logic does not work as you intended? How do you come to the conclusion that the behavior is a but and not a misconfiguration or wrong expectiation?

What exactly did you configure and how? Maybe RegEx hasn't been your friend (which is quite common)...

 

[DotWeb]

What exactly do you mean with "it"?

Which new version? The latest one seems to date back to August 2024, so not far from being two years old.

Did the redirects work before (if you say you've set them "now" this does not sound like you had them before)? Is there a possiblity that your redirect logic does not work as you intended? How do you come to the conclusion that the behavior is a but and not a misconfiguration or wrong expectiation?

What exactly did you configure and how? Maybe RegEx hasn't been your friend (which is quite common)...

You should read what I am trying to say first and avoid generating unnecessary questions, even though you are not the plugin's author. "Latest" means latest; it doesn't matter when it updates. If it was last updated in 1980, it is still the latest version until a new one comes out. It shows only 2 entries in the With redirect option. I have set many 404 pages to point to working URLs, but only two entries are visible there. All other redirects are not showing.

 

[Alpha1]

How can I prune all entries older than 30 days?
The table is gigantic.

 

[thomas1]

How can I prune all entries older than 30 days?
The table is gigantic.

I've suggested several times that this add-on be made paid and that more options be added.

 

[Mr. Jinx]

How can I prune all entries older than 30 days?
The table is gigantic.

Not sure if you already know this, but there is an option to clear the log which will clear all entries. I use this once in a while to reduce the table:



Warning: make sure you select Delete entries without redirect. The other option will delete everything including redirects
I personally think it would be better if Delete entries without redirect was the default.

 

[Alpha1]

Warning: make sure you select Delete entries without redirect. The other option will delete everything including redirects

Excellent advice, but too late. I deleted a mass of redirects by doing this. I basically nuked my SEO with it, so I need to get it back from a DB backup.

 

[Mr. Jinx]

Happened to me also and it had to happen again
@Siropu maybe you can change this behavior and make the 'Delete all entries' option not default and add an extra confirmation/warning when selecting 'all'?

 

[ekool]

Happened to me also and it had to happen again
@Siropu maybe you can change this behavior and make the 'Delete all entries' option not default and add an extra confirmation/warning when selecting 'all'?

I've had it happen to me as well

 

[SrOTurK]

Teşekkürler kardeşim.

 

[dutchbb]

Had a further look into it and apart from malicious bots also the bing bot it affected. I.e I had this call in the log that ended with a 404:

View attachment 321229
upper one:
msnbot-40-77-167-149.search.msn.com - - [08/Apr/2025:15:15:17 +0200] "GET /tags/start/ HTTP/1.1" 404 9472 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) Chrome/116.0.1938.76 Safari/537.36" 315 10202

The URL "/tags/start/" exists (there is a tag "start"). It seems only accessble when you are logged in (which bingbot is not). If I call the URL when not logged in I do indeed get a 404 - a bit strange, I would have expected a 401 here. Clearly not your fault - rather a bug in XF that may impact SEO ranking to the negative (as bing will this way get hundreds of 404s on my forum)


second one:
msnbot-40-77-167-76.search.msn.com - - [08/Apr/2025:14:26:41 +0200] "GET /threads/Threadurl.1338/Picture-Name.jpg HTTP/1.1" 404 9505 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) Chrome/116.0.1938.76 Safari/537.36" 796 14614

There are hundreds of those. The requested picture does exist (it is embedded in the thread) but as full size pictures are only accessible to logged in users the bot won't get the ful resolution pic. It would however have a different URL than the bot requested anyway - no idea where he got his from.

Anyway: This makes the log pretty useless as it is spoiled with 100s of entries caused by bing that can only manually be identified by grepping through the web.log.

This should work

# Block Bing fake image URLs in thread paths
RewriteRule ^threads/.*\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|webp|mp4)$ - [R=404,L]

 

[6686]

can delete this ?
xf_siropu_custom_404_page_not_found
~ 2.4 GB

 

[Mr. Jinx]

can delete this ?
xf_siropu_custom_404_page_not_found
~ 2.4 GB

See this post: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/custom-404-page-by-siropu.165650/page-20#post-1782567

 

[PhineasD]

@Siropu Is there any way for the addon to show the actual URL of a broken link? I have a lot of attachments with weird names, and when I edit them I get 404 errors, but I don't know which URL corresponds to each one.

 

[Siropu]

Is there any way for the addon to show the actual URL of a broken link?

It only logs the broken URL that triggers the 404.

 

[Siropu]

Siropu updated Custom 404 Page by Siropu with a new update entry:

Improvements

Added admin option "Enable 404 error log".
Added new field "Bot name" and search for it.
Added separate search fields for "URL" and "Redirect URL".
Made improvements on how search works withing the active tabs and added a new global "Any" when searching.
Added admin options shortcut in the 404 not found list page.

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[Siropu]

Forgot about clear log improvements where you can delete older than x days and also changed the order and added a confirmation for delete all.