Dont send 404

External Since: Mar 25, 2004 Posts: 2

This is what Im trying to do:

When somone tries to access a page that doesnt exists i want to redirect
the user to another page. I have solved this with a .htaccess file and
ErrorDocument and it works just fine.

The problem is that apache sends both the page and HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found.
This is a problem since I am browsing with a mobile phone, and mobile
phones are stupid devices that just looks at the response code (404) and
says, "Page not found", and does not care about the rest.

So i would like to configure apache so that it redirects the user without
sending the 404 response code, the best would be if it sent response code
200. Is this possible? Is there some kind of workaround available out
there?

I really hope somone out there can help me with my problem...

Best regards
Andreas

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External Since: Nov 03, 2003 Posts: 2907

Andreas Friis <c98afs.RemoveThis@cs.umu.se> wrote:
> The problem is that apache sends both the page and HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found.

AFAIK this can't be changed, since the 'error code' is part of the
way Apache handle the stuff.

> sending the 404 response code, the best would be if it sent response code
> 200. Is this possible?

Well, if you handle the requests trough a CGI or a server-executed
script, he will always receive a 200, but then you can handle the
'404' on your own. Of course this means potentially rewrite the whole
site... is it worth it? In this case isn't Apache the problem but is
the client that is broken.

Davide

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