vB Error Pages 1.0
 

This was requested here https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=131172

What Hack does:-

When a user receives an error message they will be served one of the appropriate error pages within your vBulletin site.

Why?

More often when a user hits an error message on a site they will hit the back button and leave, this way the user is already on your site and can navigate into your site.

Creates pages for 400, 401, 403, 404 & 500 error messages
Installation:-

Important your server must be able to support .htaccess file.

1. Unzip
2. Upload the contents of forum folder to your forum folder.
2. Add the contents of text file to your .htaccess file at the root of the server, you may need to edit and or rename the paths to suit your setup.
3. Import the product file.
4. You are done.

v1.0 - First Release

If you use it please install it

Reserved for additional content

This is an initial release more will be added to this including more error codes and more infomation on diplaying page.

First Install :)

Just what I was looking for... Thank you!

Looks great!
*installs*

Great thx !

But please use phrasing at next Update and/or a Way to change Messages via AdminCP.

This is great! Thanks for sharing

Another Suggestion :

1. WOL Locations are missing

2. Phrases and/or customazible Messages through AdminCP Menu.

That would be great.

WOL is in next update

Phrases will also be added

Hi

Could this be done for the database errors?

am i missing something, or are the 2 demo pages showing errorsthat are unconnected to this hacks generated pages???

BWAHAHAHAHHA....how ironic is THAT?

lol. What a lame error message. And it's BlueHost once again (not the hack author's fault). That provider should be shut down.

Spikeman,
very nice hack. It would be even nicer if it used standard_error instead of separate pages.

i use Bluehost.com also... and lately, i have been getting that same lame msg.. i figured out it was my shoutbox that was causing the error.. apparently, bluehost servers cant handle the load..and crashes... this was making my site look so bad... that i took the shoutbox out..... so far... no more crashes


oh.... and this hack.... is greatly appreciated.... it makes my site more uniform....now, even my errors are seamless

Tell me about it, I am trying to get it all moved now, how pathetic, 14 users and quota error, does not help that i got a load of script kiddies trying to exploit flashchat ;) but still bluehost are history with me!
There are alot of changes been made for next release that will be one.

I have had the quota errors all week, never had one before, but enough is enough.

Glad you like it

Glad you like it, but hit the install guys this will be updated soon ;)

I am glad that you will make the Changes. Thx ....

Another Suggestion - is it possible to give a 301 back at 404 Errors to forum/index.php ?

Best was if this was changeable at AdminCP to forum/cmps_index.php for the ones that use vBadvanced.

well, 301=moved permanently, auto redirect? I will look into that, i checked w3.org whilst I was writing the hack, and opted to leave out alot of codes for the reason of doing more research for compliance. That could bring in a 410(gone) if the server knows, through some internal configurable script that it has permantly unavailable and has no forwarding address...... and it goes on and on as you may know.... there are a few things to look into, but it will take some time I believe. I will get wol and phrases done first and then take it from there.

Yes I think all of these will need to go through AdminCp so they can be turned on and off or as you say redirect for the vBa users on cmps_index.php

Great .... ;)

How can i use this on host that not allow htaccess files ?

Thx !

My apologies, I did forget to put in the header that you need .htaccess file. It is not posssible to run this hack without.

I presume you are on windows?

Thanks for this! :)

Does this mean Windows folks can't run this mod?

Thinking about this, it will need some db work for storage of urls on the redirect, input through acp for example.

redirect 301 /product.php to http://domain.com/productlist.php
redirect 301 /download.php to http://domain.com/downloadhacks.php

is this more what you had in mind?

You can not run files on windows that start with a . so unfortunatly not.

However, I do know there is alot of talk about windows, apache and .htaccess on the net, but this is mainly down to password use. Maybe you can find a solution. try here this is a web host writing about windows and apache with .htaccess http://customersupport.websiteprovid...ials/htaccess/

vB already has database error reporting built in reported by email as you probably now, generally when you get a db error the only place you are going is refresh or back.:)

Hm? can't get it to work right. It shows properly for my root directory, ex:
http://www.volconvo.com/asdf
?but my forums directory still shows a plain "Page not found" message, ex:
http://www.volconvo.com/forums/asdf

Why is this?

Thats a shame, the standard db error page is pretty pants, would be better if it showed the error on a page inside the forum :(

Yes ! :)

Looking at you forum, i see that you are using vbseo, which rewrites the urls from php to html, is this interfering with the calling of the 404.php? Never used or looked at vbseo so i do not know if there are any settings to be changed? There is no reason I can see why this is not working as it works on you index page.

You can slap me if I'm getting this wrong, but when I enter some random url on your website the error returned is simply the default 'Not Found
The requested URL /forums/billie.php was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. ' is served to me, instead of a nice-looking page, hopefully you can help me understand that ;)

No this was all me, I have just spent the last 10hours moving servers from that joke company called bluehost and the only thing i forgot to do was put the .htaccess back in place :) but all is good now.

Allright, thanks. This indeed looks a lot better than the default errors, installed ;)

Hey Spikeman, you rawk!

Unfortunately, I'm in a WinBlows environment, so, alas, I cannot use this. How I wish I could!

Thanks for the great work! Keep it up!

Works with vBSEO !

Try: http://www.internetwatchers.co.uk/fo...est/billie.php and you'll find all link is incorrect.

This will helpfull for any resource that caused error under forum folder only, sub-folder will make it trouble

and see next:

This error was generated as I installed vBSEO and it appears that it takes over the 404 errors, so i need to look in to that ;)