Administrative and Maintenance Tools - 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

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by Spikeman

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 ....

[Genjuro-Sensei]

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

Thx !

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by Genjuro-Sensei

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?

[Snake]

Thanks for this!

[dilbert]

Originally Posted by Spikeman

I presume you are on windows?

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

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by redlabour

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

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?

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by dilbert

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

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/

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by bashy

Hi

Could this be done for the database errors?

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.

[voteforbird]

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?

[bashy]

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

Originally Posted by Spikeman

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.