Looking for scripts to filter 404 traffic
Are there any scripts available to filter 404 traffic? I prefer not to do this with .htaccess, which was why I was wondering if any scripts are available.
Thanks!
Are there any scripts available to filter 404 traffic? I prefer not to do this with .htaccess, which was why I was wondering if any scripts are available.
Thanks!
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 05:56 — 27th February 2007.
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How do you want to filter it? Do you mean redirect?
Panky posted this at 16:38 — 27th February 2007.
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Basically redirect it, yes. I would like to be able to control various places 404 traffic could be redirected too within my own network of sites. I know that this can be done using .htaccess and custom pages, the problem is, I would prefer if my .htaccess file didn't become the size of a mini novel.
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 16:41 — 27th February 2007.
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ErrorDocument 404 /errors/404.html'...hardly a novel.
Panky posted this at 17:04 — 27th February 2007.
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Thanks, but not what I was looking for. This links it back to a central 404 page. I'm looking for a way to funnel my 404 traffic to specific, targeted areas within my own network of sites. Not back to one custom 404 page.
Yes, I could build custom 404 pages and control this using .htaccess, but I would end up with quite a large list of custom 404 pages listed in my .htaccess file. I was wondering if an option was available to do this outside of the use of an .htaccess file. I would prefer a script do all the work and not an .htaccess file, if possible.
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 17:08 — 27th February 2007.
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What criteria are you going to use to filter the traffic?
Panky posted this at 03:43 — 28th February 2007.
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Some ideas were to filter using
country
broken image 404
allowing 404 traffic to be scattered amongst various sites within a network based on percentages. Lets say a site has 200,000 in 404 traffic. A certain percentage can be delegated to go to one particular spot. Then another chunk goes to another spot, and so on.
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 14:39 — 28th February 2007.
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Make this script your error page, and it will go to random places as specified in the array.
<?php
$redirect_links = array('www.google.com',
'www.yahoo.com',
'www.ask.com',
'www.ebay.com');
$max = count($redirect_links) - 1;
$random = rand(0, $max);
header('Location: <a href="http://'" title="http://'">http://'</a> . $redirect_links[$random]);
?>
timjpriebe posted this at 16:25 — 28th February 2007.
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You'll actually still need to funnel back to one central 404 page. However, that page will be a script that then redirects based on a variety of things.
The sample script they give on this page might be a good starting point:
http://www.web-goddess.org/phphelp/custom404.php
Tim
http://www.tandswebdesign.com
Panky posted this at 17:35 — 28th February 2007.
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Thank you. Your help is greatly appreciated!
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