The 404 or Not Found error message is a HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server, but the server could not find what was requested.
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GWT: reporting crawling errors for non existing links
Google Webmaster Tools is reporting crawl errors for links that never existed, and if i check the "Linked from" tab for a given error link, it shows another that never existed.
They all mention ...
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Clients requesting garbled URLs
I've noticed some odd 404s which appear to be broken URL rewriting code. Our image viewer requests tiles using URLs like this:
/media/204/service/dzi/1/1_files/7/0_0.jpg
I see some - well under ...
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New requests for /cache/ URLs
A few weeks ago requests following this type of pattern:
http://mysite/cache/7a226e8aa3a4380444a329a7b0dd0f40
http://mysite/otherfolder/cache/7a226e8aa3a4380444a329a7b0dd0f40
started to appear ...
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Website starts showing 404 after 301 redirects via .htaccess
One of my clients websites started getting 404 messages on some pages after doing 301 redirects via .htaccess file. I don't understand why that happens, could someone tell me what went wrong?
The ...
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Webmaster tools reports fake 404 errors
I have a website where Google Webmaster Tools reports 15,000 links as 404 errors. However, all links return a 200 when I visit them. The problem is, that eventhough I can visit these pages and return ...
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404 errors How to deal with a large number of broken internal links for SEO
I have recently updated my website. In fact I have completely rewritten it using
wordpress. It was originally constructed using ASP.
In the process, I have recycled a a large amount of my original ...
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How to fix this 404 soft error
Please help me, I didn't find an answer how to fix this.
I have a static HTML website.
www.example.com/?12345 (this page doesn't exist) redirects to www.example.com
and ...
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Is there any way to prevent Googlebar from breaking Friendly 404s
This might be considered a continuation of this question.
If I output HTML after my 404 header, It displays properly in IE and FF unless the user has Google bar instaled.
If I try
header('HTTP/1.x ...
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Soft 404 error on redirected outbound links
I have a redirect script on my site which sends visitors to an affiliate site. However in the last month I've noticed that Google webmaster tools is reporting my outbound links as a 404 error. Here is ...
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htaccess returning 404 errors on some URLS on website
I have a .htaccess file on my main directory on my website, which basically allows pretty urls (example.com/index instead of example.com/index.html) and it will redirect to a pretty url if someone ...
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MVC4 App opens with directory listing and gives a 404 for any direct URL's entered in the browser
I've just deployed a previously (on my local IIS) working MVC4 app to IIS 7.5 on the dev server. After tweaking this and that - one knows how these things get forgotten - the app finally launches, but ...
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Pins on Pinterest link to 404 - yet link is valid
this is a really strange one.
I've set up a bunch of pins on Pinterest linking through to our services which all work fine. Then I decided to do the same on our blog articles (we use Wordpress), yet ...
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Site returning 404 header to google, not sure why
A Drupal site that works fine for regular users returns a 404 not found error when I try to use the W3C validator on it; it is also not being indexed by google at all (which is the main issue but I ...
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404 error on a file/directory that exists?
We are using the vBulletin system.
I have set it up so that it redirects 404 error's to a php page, so it follows the theme of the forum.
However, if I go to a directory that exists (the admin ...
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Google Webmasters showing 404's but header check showing 200 All Good
I have just been marking them as fixed, but they just keep coming back and I don't want to have to keep coming back to mark as fixed. Google is showing about 150 of my pages as 404's but they all ...
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Google crawler not found an error inside of the <head> tag
I've found a crawler error in my site and it is listed as a page not found(404) link.
Heres the broken link http://mydomain.com/blog/comments/feed/
I'm using Google web master tools and found that ...
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Nginx 404 not working with PHP?
I have a 404 file and it is working with nginx. However when I modify the 404 file to redirect the user it does not redirect.
visiting http://site.com/404.php redirects the user.
visiting ...
