Question

I have an issue I’m having trouble :/ err404 page’s 200OK header status problem, although it should be 404 header. what is wrong with having 200 OK? is there really anything like that 200 OK should be at 404 error page header status?

appreciate advises!! thanks a lot!

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i guess it has sth to do with .htaccess. here is my .htaccess file;

ErrorDocument 404 /err404.html

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^login.html$ index.php?s=login&a=loginDo [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^logout.html$ index.php?s=login&a=logoutDo [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*).html$ index.php?s=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^members/([^/]*)$ index.php?s=profile&username=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/$ index.php?s=listing&search[cityString]=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/$ index.php?s=listing&search[neighborhoodString]=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*).html$ index.php?s=details&seo_friendly=$3 [QSA,L]

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i also have some more trouble related to this htaccess file 🙁

Question 1; when url is like http://localhost/fdfcdcvdvdvbdf.html (not exist url), it redirects to homepage, but it should redirect to err404.html. Any idea about the problem? err404 redirection works well in case of url like http://localhost/fdfcdcvdvdvbdf.ht or http://localhost/fdfcdcvdvdv

Question 2;
How can I fix this 200 OK problem :/

Answer 1

By returning a 200 OK status for missing pages, you’re confusing browsers (may not show error messages if you had no custom error HTML) and search engines (they’ll start indexing anything someone tells them about, like example.com/this-web-site-is-terrible-use-our-competitor)…

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Regarding your edit about mod_rewrite:
http://example.com/lsdjkldsjlk.html matches your third RewriteRule, so it’ll redirect to index.php.

The index.php script is where you should detect there’s no content relating to the s parameter and return a 404 status via a call to header().