Custom Error Pages

[dman]

Hello,

I'm wondering why the custom error pages do not pass the query string in the resulting error page query string? My understanding is that IIS 5 and 6 support this and that it is a setting available in each.

For Example:

www.domain.com/nopage.htm?string=123

will go to...

www.domain.com/customerrorpage.htm?404;http://www.domain.com/nopage.htm

... loosing the original query string, "string=123".

Can this be corrected or adjusted to work? Thanks!

 

[dman]

Anybody have any input? Is this not possible with Hsphere? Am I wrong about IIS having this ability? Thanks!

 

[dman]

Ok, so no reponse yet. What I am trying to do is create a proper 301 redirect programtically. The problem is that when a user clicks on a link to the old page and lands on the custom error page, the querystring is not kept, which looses some link details like affiliate numbers. I have also tried a redirect to the custom error page, keeping the old page in place for this purpose (a real pain), and setting the 301 redirect header on both pages but this seems to return a 302 Page Moved status. Any ideas on ways to do this without entering each page into the CP redirector function? This particular site is using ASP 3.0 and VBScript. Thanks!

 

[Stephen]

I don't think it is possible.

 

[dman]

Thanks for the reply Stephen. Do you mean that there is no way to pass the querystring or that there is no way to effectively implement a 301 redirect? The whole purpose of the 301 is to maintain the page rank as well. I've found articles talking about how to do this but not with a custom error page. Any other ideas? Thanks!