Hi Bill,
Thanks for answering.
A question or two if you please...
I am running IIS5 on a Win2k server. In order to do redirects, the
files have to already exist. I was hoping for something a bit more
elegant then this. We are talking of hundreds of files.
What I am looking for is whether it is possible to have the server
return the proper 404 rather then Witango when the application file
is missing. Not sure if this can be done.
When you say "... have your witango error handler send the
appropriate code," I am not sure what you mean nor how to do this. I
am wondering if anyone has attempted this before in Windoze and what
steps I need to take to return proper headers when files aren't found.
Thanks!
Presumably you have an error trap for Witango Main Error 3 (file not
found) that displays your error page. The error page is a valid
page so it should return 200 OK.
You need to have your web server return a 404 Not Found, 302
Redirect, or 301 Moved in response to these requests, before the
Witango error handler is invoked. See apache mod_rewrite.
Or have your witango error handler send the appropriate code.
bill
On Thursday, July 14, 2005, at 08:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know this has come up before, but I need a little help.
I redid a site and all the taf file names have been changed. I
wanted to use the Google URL removal tool to get rid of the old
taf files. They are still being crawled by Google but all the
links end up pointing to the default Witango error page. In fact,
after years of using Witango, I have noticed that Google will keep
crawling these pages because, according to Google, they still
exist and return as 200 Object Found pages. On 40 websites, I have
many of these links that are still being indexed by Google and I
want to clean up all the sites and remove the dead URLS. Google
requests that all pages listed for removal be a 404 page. In
otherwords, a true Object Not Found page. I did a header check on
one of the dead URLs and have found that Witango treats the error
page as a 200 Object Found. Is there any way to change the header
info and have Witango treat these pages as a 404 pages?
Eventually, Google will drop them if I could figure this one out.
Thanks.
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