First turn on a sniffer. Try http://www.reedssports.com/index.html, you will see it redirects to http://www.reedssports.com/default.taf
The sniffer shows a 301, ends with a 200. That's why I am not sure it is working correctly. Steve Fogelson Internet Commerce Solutions -----Original Message----- From: Fogelson, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 1:00 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: 404 Object Not Found I am trying to do the same thing and I believe it is working, but not positive. On IIS admin for the site, I assign a taf (404.taf) to the 404 Custom Error. I set it to a Message Type of "URL" and the URL path to "/404/404north.taf". In 404.taf I check for the URL and redirect as I see fit, but I use the following tag to assign the header: <@assign request$httpHeader "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently<@CRLF>Location: http://<@domain>/<@var request$url encoding=none><@crlf><@userreferencecookie><@crlf>"> Let me know what you or anyone else thinks. Steve Fogelson Internet Commerce Solutions -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 12:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: 404 Object Not Found 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. >>_______________________________________________________________________ _ >>TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf >> > >________________________________________________________________________ >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
