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Missing Documents: How to make 404 messages friendlier with Apache




Conclusion


How you can do it.
A 404 doesn't need to be an sore in the eye of the user. It might be a way to catch new users for your site by providing solutions to the problem.

Good Examples

At useit.com you can see an example of the error page generated there. It lists common mistakes, the site's most popular pages, search, and leads the user to the main page.

At Lycos you can see an example of the error page generated there. It refers the user to the Tech Glossary which is where the linkrot entry exists.

Bad Examples


How not to do it.
At cnn.com you can see how not to do things.

At Goole, which I use for my searches, they're not good either.

Read More

Cool URIs don't change a page at w3.org, the www consortium.
Alertbox: Linkrot an article from useit.com, Jakob Nielsen's page.
Web Pages Must Live Forever an article from useit.com, Jakob Nielsen's page.
The Biggest Problem with the Web: The 404 Error an article from John Dvorak's column at ZDNet.
Does Your Site Suffer from Linkrot? an article from Enterprise Watch.


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Internet Explorer 4 and newer Paul Kenneth Egell-Johnsen 23.11.2000 09:51

Will always show its own 404 page. Therefore make sure that the total page size of your 404 document (including graphics) is larger than 512 bytes.




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