Hey Joe,

2 question.

First, I'm having some problems with the 404 handling.

I have removed the custom error tags from the web.config, since this is only good for the user and not for search engines.
But now I don't have a correct 404 handling (Yes, I have set the 404 in IIS to a correct file).
So i wonder if it's not possible to add more handling of this in the code of Mojoportal?
There was a suggestion, but that lost it's focus since it went to logging. I haven't tested this, but would it be possible to make a 404 aspx page, which is customisable like other pages, but returns a 404 status? Just an idea. I'm thinking now to setup IIS that it handles everything with asp isapi and make a httpmodule for it.

Second question: would it be a lot of work, to make a forum with SEO friendly url's?
Something like /forums/date/title-of-the-topic.aspx. Difficult?

Stef

Joe,

It's not the error page I'm talking about, but the 404 page.

Have you ever checked the status code of those <error statusCode="404" redirect="~/PageNotFound.aspx" /> page?
That is just a redirect and that gives a 200 code. So no 404 like google wants. I had troubles with webmasters tools, since there is no good 404 handling. And no, I don't want the webmasters tools verification meta tag in my html.
 

About the forum: if you think that the google index is just fine, ok for me than. I understand that there are more important things to work on.
Just to give you an online forum: http://forum.yetanotherforum.net/yaf_postst7342_Could-I-modify-the-font-size-in-the-Forum.aspx

Stef

The problem with that way of working, is that the url changes with a wrong page.
The url stays the same if you configure IIS correct. So I wouldn't give the pagenotfound.aspx a 404 status. It will always be that pages that gives a 404.

What to do best?

I have changed the IIS settings and putted a 404.html in the setting. That way, when I go f.i. to www.mysite.com/sdqfsdf, I get that 404.html.
If you go to www.mysite.com/sdqdsf.aspx, you get the asp.net error page:

The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.

Requested URL: /sdfsdf.aspx

So I wonder if you do that in debug mode, that the cursor is coming the code of the default.aspx (I guess everything of the normal things of the cms, so not the form, blog, ... is parsed via the default.aspx). If it comes in the page, you can check if that url is in the db (301 of normal db) and if not, you can say that the page is the 404 page (page with a fixed id in the db so we can also put modules on it) and render it and give it a 404 status code.

I'm doing things like that in our applications. But that will only work if you you can come in the default.aspx

Stef