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

[masterme]

Installed and very nice. Always a better look and a better service towards visitors this way!

[Smoothie]

Where are the phrases?

[Smoothie]

Originally Posted by Brew

One other person has posted this problem so at least I know it's not just me :P

I recently migrated to vB from another system. Since vB has new URLs from the old system visitors are being taken to this error pages mod.

The problem is that since the bad page call is in a different directory than vB folder the css is not called correctly.

As an example try these:
1: http://www.politicalforums.net/oldforum/index.php
2: http://www.politicalforums.net/forums/badpage.php

Link 1 is similar to what people going to the old forums get. All graphics are missing.

Link 2 is the error page under the current vB folder where it can find the css data to generate the graphics.

I've trying to figure out a way around this but haven't had any luck. The only thing left I can think of is to put the css info directly into the error.php file but this would make it a real pain to change every time I update the forums.

Thanks for any help with this.

Brew

same here, this mod is worthless to me now. Uninstalled

[Brew]

Originally Posted by Smoothie

same here, this mod is worthless to me now. Uninstalled

I was able to get it mostly working but I had to hard-code the image paths and links.

So long as I don't update the skin anytime soon I'll be ok.

:classic:

[Smoothie]

Originally Posted by Brew

I was able to get it mostly working but I had to hard-code the image paths and links.

So long as I don't update the skin anytime soon I'll be ok.

:classic:

I hear that. Not worth the time or effort for me to do that. Thanks for the heads up though.....

[Brew]

This has actually been working very well. So it's no knock on the author.

It just has this one issue as far as I can tell.

Fix the skin problem and it'll be top notch.

In the mean time you just have three templates to change the links to the images and forums to. It's really not at all difficult.

[vulture]

I like this hack but it doesn't work properly (even on the authors forum)

This gives the correct error page: http://www.internetwatchers.co.uk/forums/blah
This totally screws up: http://www.internetwatchers.co.uk/blah

On my site if I do the later example the forums/ parts just disappears in any hyperlink. Is there a fix for this?

[4yBak]

how about fixing this bug?

[redlabour]

Still waiting for the WOL Fix. Everything else works perfect.

[jgommel]

I'm not sure if this will help anyone or not, but I added the following code to each .php error page in order to get my skins images/paths etc to work correctly.

FIND:

require_once('./global.php');

ADD UNDER:

// #################### HARD CODE JAVASCRIPT PATHS ######################## 
$headinclude = str_replace('clientscript', $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/clientscript', $headinclude);