GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 553529
Create custom 404 page
Last modified: 2011-06-09 14:18:58 UTC
As #335463 shows - if some page is not found the user just gets the ugly and unhelpful standard 404 page of Apache. I suggest we create some page that looks prettier, while at the same time tells the user where else he can go. It would already be good if this page has no other content than "The page you searched could not be found". I think that a customized 404 page is something every large website should have. This makes outdated links less harmful.
I can add some simple page.
Created attachment 119453 [details] [review] this adds a very simple page 404.wml to gnomeweb-wml/www.gnome.org/404.wml This 404 page is not enough to get nicer error pages. One would need to add something like: ErrorDocument 404 /404.html for Apache.
Can we please have some comment after two months for such an important and longstanding bug. 404 means people might not come back! Dont expect people to all be geeks who know how to rewrite an URL!
This pages gives a nice overview what can also be done: http://alistapart.com/articles/perfect404/
Argh, still no solution. This is VERY,VERY unprofessional . For testing see URL: http://www.gnome.org/404 Increasing importance. We loose a lot users this way.
New website will take care of that I guess.
And new website will be released when? Just as a reminder The planniung started in Jula 2006 and should have been released with GNOME 2.16 in September 2006. so if any of your plans are outside the scale of 2 months I suggest you rather fix issues. Or you update http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb which says it will be ready 3 years after the first intended release date. Making a 404 page alwas has been a work of less than a minute. I really have no clue why on earth people run after goals that are still missed nearly 4 years after the first ideas. Sure, sure, everything will be better after this new website - but nobody can tell us when its coming, otherwise the wiki pages would have been updated, wouldnt they? Ans OTOH this is still something that needs to be created when a new website is running. So it does not make any sense closing it.
(In reply to comment #7) > And new website will be released when? [snip] Thilo, do you think your comment here was somehow constructive?
Sure. Do you think personal questions are?
Okay, to rephrase it: Please don't add comments that do not add any additional value to bug reposts and are offtopic. At least Lucas and others ARE working on it instead of just talking about it. Thanks: your friendly bugmaster.
Okay rephrase it: look at the patch! Who has filed the bug? I have had enough. Removing my bugzilla account, will not file any more bug reports, will not povide any bit of help or patches any more. It does not make any sense to help. And you quite know that if you deny people like me access to subversion you cant blame THEM if they cant help. I am sick of this attitude.
(In reply to comment #7) > And new website will be released when? Just as a reminder The planniung started > in Jula 2006 and should have been released with GNOME 2.16 in September 2006. > so if any of your plans are outside the scale of 2 months I suggest you rather > fix issues. Or you update http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb which says it will be > ready 3 years after the first intended release date. And now we finally have a new website, with a custom 404 page and everything! http://www.gnome.org/fail Closing this as Fixed.