htaccess rewrite rule works but throws errors.

kidneybean · Joined: 15 Aug 2008 Posts: 3

From the perspective of someone visiting my site, the rewrite rule works fine, but meanwhile the server throws errors.

Here's the rule:

SeO

Interesting.
Have you checked if the server was now throwing a 404 header while it still displays the page ?

Anyway, you can try to add :

kidneybean · Joined: 15 Aug 2008 Posts: 3

Thanks, SeO.

The server doesn't throw a 404 header while it still displays the page.

I tried adding those two RewriteCond lines you suggested but I still get the same error.

Any other ideas? I'm desperate for things to try!

Thanks again.

dcz

From the logs the error is on Other-Question/, a bot (they do such tests) or someone may just have tried to load what appears to be a dir, and fall on a genuine 404.

For this rewriterule only (could not work with other if any), you could redirect this type of calls to root like this :

kidneybean · Joined: 15 Aug 2008 Posts: 3

Thanks, I tried adding

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]+/)?[a-z0-9]+/?$ / [L,NC,R=301]

but I got the same error!
let me know if you can think of anything else to try.
thanks so much.

dcz

Is it redirecting Other-Question/ to domain's root ?

You can as well try :

mnl-joshua · Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 1

I have a very similar problem where pages render correctly to users, but google bot is receiving 404 for pages.. oddly, some rewrites work fine (and give 200).

Using web-sniffer, this url rewrite is fine:
http://web-sniffer.net/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.meetnowlive.com%2Fvenues%2Fnew-york-area%2Fmanhattan%2F&submit=Submit&http=1.1&gzip=yes&type=GET&uak=7

This url rewrite throws 404:
http://web-sniffer.net/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.meetnowlive.com%2Fvenue%2Fthe-town-tavern%2F&http=1.1&gzip=yes&type=GET&uak=7

htaccess has this..
RewriteRule ^venue$ /venue/
RewriteRule ^venue/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)(/*)$ /venue.php?v_slug=$1

RewriteRule ^venues$ /venues/
RewriteRule ^venues/$ /directory.php
RewriteRule ^venues/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)(/*)$ /directory.php?c_slug=$1

Any ideas why googlebot can't see?

dcz

mm, I get a 200 on both examples.

You could still try to use :