Al, this is great however I don't know where in the CFadmin to set this
up... I don't see anywhere to add handlers...
At 05:06 PM 08/29/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> What I do is set up a site-wide missing template handler (In the cold
>fusion admin) that points to a file that contains the following script:
>
>===========================================================
><cfif isdefined('http_host')>
><cflocation url="http://#http_host#/404.cfm"; addtoken="No">
></cfif>
>
>The page you requested is no longer available, or you misspelled the name.
><br>Please click <a href="index.cfm">HERE</a> to go to the home page!
>==========================================================
>
>Then, in the root directory of each virtual site, I have a 404.cfm page
>that explains that page is no longer available, and has a search box to
>help people find the page they want, as well as the navigation system of
>the web site.
>
>This way, each site can have it's own error handling page. I have the
>isdefined there because some browsers do not return the http_host variable,
>which would have made the page error out. In that case, we just have a
>simple error message displayed
>
>Be careful - EVERY site on your server will then need a 404.cfm file. If it
>doesn't have one, you get an endless loop that will take up a lot of your cpu!
>
>Al
>A1webs.com
>
>
>
>
>
> >I've got a site that we did as a redesign of an existing site from another
> >dev company - some of the search engines have the old site listed with
> >links to now-nonexistent pages and it's nearly impossible to get them to
> >change their database... How can I allow someone to come to the site and if
> >it's a non-existent page, automatically have them get redirected to the
> >home page?
> >
> >I'm running CF 5, IIS 5, Win2k and have virtual IP (only 1 IP) tho there
> >are several sites on the box.
>
>
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