Version: 1.00, by JJR512
Developer Last Online: Jun 2006
Version: 2.2.x
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Released: 07-28-2002
Last Update: Never
Installs: 13
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I've made a little hack that will show custom HTTP error documents to any visitor to your site, if he or she creates the error condition. These are errors like 404 (file not found) or 500 (internal server error). I've included processing for about 23 various HTTP errors.
The error documents are templates within vBulletin, but these do not apply only to vBulletin. Any visitor to any part of your site would see the error document (if appropriate). Now obviously this means that this hack should not be used by those of you that do not allow guest/unlogged-in viewing of your board, because if a guest creates an error condition, he/she would only see the vBulletin "not logged in or no permission" message, which wouldn't be very useful.
This hack also involves modifying your .htaccess file, and I believe only Apache-powered servers use that (correct me if I'm wrong). Because screwing up that file can make your site unusable, make sure you keep a backup copy of it, and if you can't find a .htaccess file in your root web directory, check with your webhost to see if they've hidden it, which is often the case. DO NOT just make a new, blank .htaccess file and upload it because you may overwrite a hidden one, potentially killing your site.
As you can probably tell by now, this hack is perhaps not an appropriate choice for the complete newbie. I strongly suggest that you use this hack only if you read the directions and actually understand them; many times, people just blindly follow the instructions without a clue as to what they're doing, and usually, this is fine, but I'm warning you now, you can hurt your site if you screw this up, and if you don't know what you're doing, you won't know how to fix it if/when you do screw it up.
(By now you may be asking why I'm releasing this. Well, I did it originally for my own site, and figured some others of you may like it as well. This is actually a very simple hack to install; it involves only one file mod, one new very small file, and importing one file into the db, and that's it. You may wish to modify/customize the templates as you desire. You will find them in with the regular vB templates in the section "HTTP Error Templates".)
For a demo, please visit this non-existant page on my website, to show you a 404 (other errors look similar, with customized messages): http://www.jjr512.com/ddkd4iafgi8d.php
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when i delete the error.php file from my server, all the errors (unknown location errors) go away, and just show were everyone really is. it does that on EVERY vbb that this hack is on it seems. Even yours. And like i said over 90% of the users on the users online.php have that error as there location.
Are you saying you have a bunch of people online that are being shown as having an HTTP error, but they're really not having an error, they're somewhere else doing something else?
I still don't know what you mean. Do you understand that we can't see what it is you're talking about in Post #35, because, as DrkFusion said, guests can't see your board? I also don't understand why online.php wasn't there because error.php was.
I just received an email notification about a reply to that thread. The reply appears to have been deleted, or for some other reason, I can't see it. But, because the notification email contained the message, I can still address it.
For the record, the reply was a question:
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I must say this is a excellent hack I just have one problem. I recently created another style and was wondering how I would go about importing the templates in the .sql into the new templateset. How do I add the templates in the .sql file into the database?
The answer is that the templates are installed as default templates. This means it's like they're an original part of vBulletin. They show up where the other templates that come with vB show up, not at the top of the list where custom templates show up. This means they will be active in every templateset you have. The only downside is that when you upgrade vBulletin, you will need to reinstall the templates, by once again importing the .sql file.
Nice hack I've installed it, but looking in the apache-docs (2.0.xx) i found:
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In addition, if you use a remote URL in an ErrorDocument 401, the client will not know to prompt the user for a password since it will not receive the 401 status code. Therefore, if you use an ErrorDocument 401 directive then it must refer to a local document.
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07-31-2002, 01:37 PM
I've installed it, but looking in the apache-docs (2.0.xx) i found:
