Create custom error document pages, and enable robots meta tags for pages

rive0108 · 02-05-2010, 04:58 PM

Tutorial can be found here:
http://www.gssmods.com/forumdisplay.php/5-GSS-Mods-Plug-Ins-

Here is an excerpt-
I have created a new "Robots" section in admin area>pages, where if i enter text like (noindex,nofollow), it overrides the default for that page only (and anything that calls the page- like the server)
I needed this because I created 5 custom error documents (400,401,403,404,500), and didnt want them indexed or followed by search engines.
Also, any pages pulled up by users that trigger a server error document will not be indexed or followed.
here are screen shots:

here is the default for all pages (if no text entered):

Quote:

Here is the customized 404/403 error page source for robots:
The other 3 (400,401,500 are not really testable, so I didnt link examples)
404
http://www.havocarcade.com/p
403
http://www.havocarcade.com/adver

Quote:

Code:

 <head>
  <title>
   Havoc Arcade - 404 Not Found
  </title>
 
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
  <meta name="keywords" content="not found" />
  <meta name="description" content="content not found" />
  <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />
  <meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache" />

INSTALLATION:
First lets create the error doucuments, and set them up in .htaccess, then we will edit the files-
Create the following Error pages using this format, and then add your unique page content:
Example:

Quote:

Title=404 Not Found
content=Sorry, but that page could not be found.
meta description=content not found
meta key= not found
meta robots=noindex,nofollow

Create error pages for the following (using the above format):
note- error codes definitions: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
404 Not Found
403 Forbidden
500 Server Error
400 bad request
401 Unathorized
Now tie all your custom error pages into .htaccess (change text in red to match your new error document page):
note- this is for mod_rewrite urls, if using query_string yours will look like this

Quote:

index.php?params=page/10/

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