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Topic: HTTP 404 on site on topics/forums

Posted By: wonderbison
Subject: HTTP 404 on site on topics/forums
Date Posted: 21 March 2016 at 5:52pm

Hi

I am getting HTTP 404's when looking at forums and topics on my website. The forum or topic will appear after a random number of clicks but its very annoying

This is on FireFox and IE.

Can you advise? Cant find anything in your KB

Thanks

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 March 2016 at 10:28am

It sounds like you have enabled URL Rewriting from the SEO settings page in the admin area.

This setting will use Friendly URL's in your forums that have .html page names, but requires that you install the 'Web Wiz Forums URL Rewrite' tool from the download page;

https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-downloads.htm

If you can not install the 'Web Wiz Forums URL Rewrite tool' then you would need top disable the URL Rewriting from the SEO settings page in the admin area.

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Posted By: wonderbison
Date Posted: 22 March 2016 at 7:44pm

Hi

URL rewriting is disabled because although I switched it on for a previous issue... it caused further issues

http://forums.webwiz.net/malformed-url_topic31275_post153890.html?KW=#153890

But I can try again?

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 March 2016 at 7:46am

I had a look at your website at http://www.rolling-maul.com and the URL's that are showing 404 errors are all ones that have ampersand '&' within the URL.

This appears to be some type of filtering being done on the server which is blocking these URL's with the ampersands from loading.

You should contact the server admin regrading this issue.

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Posted By: wonderbison
Date Posted: 25 March 2016 at 5:40pm

The only software they have is http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/urlscan URLScan. Could this be it? This seems to be to stop SQL Server injection attacks and if so what can be done to get around this please?

Thanks

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 29 March 2016 at 9:10am

It is likely that the URL Scan would be causing the issue.

Unless your website is badly coded and is vulnerable to SQL Injections you should not need to use URL Scan to protect against SQL Injections.

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Posted By: wonderbison
Date Posted: 31 March 2016 at 9:03am

The URL Scan is switch off. The hosting company have said this...

When looking at the url when I view the source code, I can see the extra text before the title value e.g.

http://www.rolling-maul.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7148&FID=4&PR=3&title=please-read-board-rules-contact-details" rel="nofollow -

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 31 March 2016 at 4:01pm

This certainly looks to be a server issue.

The only thing I can suggest is that if you have no luck fixing the issue is that you look at moving the forum to our network.

Web Wiz Forums hosting packages can be found on the page below;

http://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm

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Posted By: wonderbison
Date Posted: 31 March 2016 at 8:39pm

Hi

Thanks for the reply. What sort of server issue should I get them to look for?

For example the following fails from the link

http://www.rolling-maul.com/please-read-board-rules-contact-details_topic7148&FID=4&PR=3.html

but remove &FID=4&PR=3

http://www.rolling-maul.com/please-read-board-rules-contact-details_topic7148.html

This works. So something is either adding in the &FID/PR or something isnt removing within the software?

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 01 April 2016 at 12:23pm

I could not say what the issue is, I know though that have not seen this issue before with any of the forums that we host and not had anyone else report this issue.

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