Comments on: Check Your Sites AND Click Links

By: sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:11:17 +0000

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers! Sandra. R.

By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:40:10 +0000

Simon,

I recommend that you post this question on the phpBay forum. This is beyond my scope of knowledge, and I suspect the members there will be better able to help you with this. You can post at http://www.phpbay.com/forums/

Good luck,
Rochelle

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:16:30 +0000

I have a number of sites running BANS with Wordpress. Some have BANS on the roo, other WP is on the root. I’m also using phpBay. Now, on those sites with WP on the root things are ok.

HOWEVER, my sites with BANS on the root are giving me problems. The BANS ebay listings work fine (i.e. I click and I get taken to eBay), but the Wordpress (phpBay) ones don’t work. I think that it’s something in the .htaccess file(s) that I have, but for the life of me I can’t see what it is. I am php, .htaccess myopic so that could be the problem! Can anybody help me?

By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:00:37 +0000

I forgot to mention in my post that every one of my sites (40+) were down because of what I did. Luckily it took me about an hour to fix them all.

Rochelle

By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:59:19 +0000

A 404 message means a page wasn’t found. The best way to get rid of this is to figure out what page isn’t being found by visitors and redirect it.

While I can’t say for sure what page (or pages) is generating this error, I can say it will occur if you change a link URL name or location of a page. You might go to a search engine, such as Google, and enter site:yourURL.com (using your URL, of course) and see if any of the indexed pages result in a 404 error message.

If someone knows an easier way please share.

Rochelle

By: Margaret

Margaret — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:09:14 +0000

404 errors can be triggered if someone is trying to find an old page which they had bookmarked; also by creeps trying to test to see if there is a “back door” page into your web site. There can be loads of reasons for the 404 error page …

If you’re running a BANS site, I think that BANS sends you to a custom 404 page which still shows your site’s navigation – so people are kept onsite and can find something else to browse. It’s a good idea for sites not using BANS scripts to customise the 404 and other error pages, to either monetise them with adsense or put links back to other useful information on your web site. You can do this from within cPanel. However, like Rochelle says, check links and make sure everything is working correctly after you make changes like this.

Margaret

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By: Alice

Alice — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:09:27 +0000

So how do you get rid of 404 messages? In cpanel sometimes some of my sites have those listed, but I’ve never encountered one when checking my sites.

Alice

By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:26:02 +0000

In this particular case I didn’t make any changes to any of my sites. I simply pressed a button in cPanel that had dire consequences to every one of my sites.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:46:06 +0000

Naughty girl…

Whenever you make ANY changes to a site, click around, check links, go to other pages and do the same. As Rochelle found out, a small molehill can result in an almighty mountain.