[pmwiki-users] 404 Not Found
H. Fox
haganfox at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Jan 25 16:06:22 CST 2006
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Another Question: As administrators, how should we classify
missing-page targets? I can think of at least two important ways:
* Visitor has edit privileges or not (important for a CMS-type installations).
* Link is qualified or not. That is, the link is group+page
(?n=SomeGroup.MissingPage) or not (?n=Something).
The first one can be accomplished by swapping PageNotFound pages
according to whether the visitor is logged in or not.
Let me get the CMS-type behavior out of the way...
Going to http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/MissingPage used to show
Describe MissingPage here.
That message is completely wrong for a non-author visitor in a
CMS-type installation. See
http://qdig.sourceforge.net/Main/MissingPage for an example. I'd
rather it say, at minimum.
Page not found.
or, if the page has existed but has been deleted, produce a 410 (Gone) error:
Page no longer exists on this server.
The wording may be slightly different (Christian would no doubt want
to include a SiteMap below the message :-) ), but the point is: For
CMS-type installations all that's needed is a way to let the visitor
know they're in the wrong place.
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Hagan
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