404 errors how to track?

Involved Joined: Jul 12, 2005 Posts: 283

Quick question.
I was looking at my web statistics and its says i recived 3893 Code 404 errors.

How can i look at my logs, and find what links are being used to create these types of errors.

For example, if someone is clicking a link somewhere like [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] i want to see where they came from, and what link, so i can fix it.

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 3:03 pm

Some web hosting statistics packages, such as the one that's in CPanel (but also if I recall correctly even the VDECK one) contain a section on where you are linked to from. Give that a try. You can't really fix an improper link that someone else has, you might be able to redirect it in htaccess.

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 4:43 pm

awstats displays all 404 errors and the hits for such links.
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Thats helpful and beneed that I use a own 404 page with email function.

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:48 am

So everytime there is a 404 page error, you get it emailed to you?

How do you do that?

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 8:49 am

Yes, thats the way this works.
You will find many different examples and its very easy to create such a 404 page and to change the .htaccess slightly.

Thats only one example. I don´t used that but check it out:
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