Miscellaneous Hacks - vB4 Error Pages

This hack allows you to use vBulletin template driven pages for 400, 401, 403, 404 and 500 webserver error pages that will perfectly match your own forum's design. Five custom pages are added to your forum by this hack. You can then instruct your webserver to use these pages for it's error pages.

I modified JamesAB's Custom HTTP Error Pages hack for vB3.8, so credit is due him for the original coding!

Features:

• Error pages will still work even if your forum is turned off in the AdminCP.
• Admin CP option to automatically redirect to your forum's main page after the error page is shown for 5 seconds.
• Admin CP option to show or hide notices on error pages.

Files: 5
Templates: 5
Time: 10 minutes
Compatible: 4.x.x

The templates are very basic and are designed to work with the default style. You may need to tweak them for your forum. They are grouped together under HTTP Error Templates.

The errors messages are fully phrased, but pretty generic. I encourage you to edit them to best suit your site. Each page uses three different vBulletin phrases:

• navbit
• title
• message

I include a modified copy of the vBulletin default .htaccess file in the mod. If you are not already using .htaccess, or if your existing file is the default vbulletin one, you are welcome to simply upload this to the root of your webserver and/or replace the existing file.

DO NOT DO THIS if you have made changes to the default file or if you have a custom file!

Please mark Installed and let me know if there are any issues or suggestions!

[qpurser]

Originally Posted by simonhind

ok so ensure that there is no white spaces for

ErrorDocument 400 /forums/400.php
ErrorDocument 401 /forums/401.php
ErrorDocument 403 /forums/403.php
ErrorDocument 404 /forums/404.php
ErrorDocument 500 /forums/500.php

&

# Send hardcoded ipa scores to arcade instead
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} act=Arcade [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} autocom=arcade
RewriteRule ^index.php arcade.php [L,QSA]

there should be no spaces before or after

you dont need to type anything for the errors

as long as you have this mod active and fopr example

if you type

blahblah.php it will show the appropriate error
the redirects are auto

see if you type

http://mydomain.com/~tcmasorg/forums/

it works

Thanks for the reply.
As mentioned I had no issues with the new error page showing up.
I am just confused why there is a need for the immediate redirection to the main forum page.

Michael

[TheSupportForum]

Originally Posted by qpurser

Thanks for the reply.
As mentioned I had no issues with the new error page showing up.
I am just confused why there is a need for the immediate redirection to the main forum page.

Michael

you have set that to your homepage which is why it will redirect to your homepage

[John Lester]

I totally forgot to comment on this mod It's awesome! Saved me the hassle of creating each page myself, thank you

[Naijasite]

i like this mod but it dosen't work with my vbseo ..it still showed vbulletin default page

[gezuvor]

I'm working on this a bit more now. I updated to 4.2.0 PL2 and it's not functional, with or without vbSEO installed.

Will update as soon as I can get it running again!

[Gadget_Guy]

Any updates on this mod for 4.2.2 PL2

Reason I ask....

The pages display with the error, but on re-direct instead of going to my forum home it goes to:

https://www.toronto-subaru-club.com/forums/blogs/all/


How can I get it to go to: https://www.toronto-subaru-club.com/forums/forums.php


D.