XF 1.3 how to handle vbulletins 404 errors ?

[tsak76]

ok so after moving from vb to xf and redicting the important pages from vb to xf i still see a lot of errors in cpanel error log, assuming that vb was in different folder than xf whould it be ok to add to vbs .htaccess

ErrorDocument 401 http://www.xf-url.com/error
ErrorDocument 403 http://www.xf-url/error
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.xf-utl/error
ErrorDocument 500 http://www.xf-url.com/error

???

 

[Paul B]

Have you implemented the redirection scripts?

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/vbulletin-4-x-url-redirection.120/

 

[tsak76]

yea but there are many vb pages from addons and stuff not used in xf. i am talking about the pages of vb that are not threads posts members or forums

 

[Paul B]

Have you considered implementing additional redirects for those?

Just add them to the .htaccess file.

 

[tsak76]

there are no redirects for arcade.php and useless stuff like that, they are NOT existant in xf and my question is how to handle those 404 ?

 

[Liam W]

there are no redirects for arcade.php and useless stuff like that, they are NOT existant in xf and my question is how to handle those 404 ?

They don't exist, so just leave them in place - what else are you supposed to do?

 

[tsak76]

They don't exist, so just leave them in place - what else are you supposed to do?

vb was in another dir than xf so it shows a white page saying not found. i want those vb pages to show the xf header footer page not found

 

[tsak76]

@Mike any idea plz ?

 

[Paul B]

Why do you want to redirect to an error page?

Just redirect to the site index.

 

[tsak76]

Why do you want to redirect to an error page?

Just redirect to the site index.

for the same reason xenforo does it http://xenforo.com/community/xcxcxc
not sure if this is good for seo but anyway i whould put in vb folder ht access ? ErrorDocument 404 www.site.com ?

 

[Mike]

If the files don't exist, they'll just return a 404 anyway. If you want to modify what is displayed for the 404, you can use the ErrorDocument line. Really, the easiest thing is to just try it and see if it functions how you want (it may not).

 

[tsak76]

If the files don't exist, they'll just return a 404 anyway. If you want to modify what is displayed for the 404, you can use the ErrorDocument line. Really, the easiest thing is to just try it and see if it functions how you want (it may not).

well i want this 404 page to be the xf error page and not the blank page of apache saying the
Not Found
The requested URL /forums/clientscript was not found on this server.

how to use the ErrorDocument line since vb was on a different folder than xf

 

[Mike]

You either need to create your own custom 404 page that mimics your XF look or you need to do an actual redirect to a URL that 404's in XF (which will redirect the client, which may not be ideal but it's really the only option).

 

[tsak76]

You either need to create your own custom 404 page that mimics your XF look or you need to do an actual redirect to a URL that 404's in XF (which will redirect the client, which may not be ideal but it's really the only option).

i just had to go to the vbulletin folder and this to the .htaccess
ErrorDocument 404 /home/user/public_html (which is the xf path) NOW All 404 vb pages show the xf error page and the server returns 404 request

 

[Renegade]

How do I customize the xf 404 page? I mean which template to edit?

 

[rdn]

How do I customize the xf 404 page? I mean which template to edit?

I think it's "error" template.
For 404 page, on my case I'm using BD widget to target all error pages.

 

[Renegade]

Thanks. My problem is that the forum is in a folder now and I am not able to point the 404 to an error page inside the forum. Will have to mimic the forum page as Mike suggested.