Re: [cobalt-users] Error 404 Page

[Wayne Sagar <wsagar@xxxxxxxx>]

>>If the search engines are picking it up, then they are following 
>>a broken link to it

Actually not totally sure it's the engines.. It's just showing up a lot in webalizer and from most of my checks, I don't have any/that many broken links.. Since they are html files sitting there in the home/sites/sitex/web/ folder... I wonder if they are picked up or not... It also could be webclippings.com, which I have been listed on.. They crawl through at least once a day and load every file on the site.. not just look at it.. they download it.. 

At any rate.. tried to go into the httpd.conf file and edit the file call from a full path url to various combinations of  home/sites blaa bla... to ../../ backing out of the directory and then up... I either did the combo wrong or.. that call simply has to be made as a full path url.. 

Quick solution was to put them in a folder named private_folder, as.. I've seen at least one engine who's spiders will ignor folders with that name configuration... 

Mostly messing with these files as a learning experience anyway because even though the httpd.conf file is one that could totally hose me if I hosed it.. I've got a good working backup and can restore it at any time.. 

Looking back to my DOS days (the OS..not the attack:) I remember that is how I learned a lot there.. Back up the entire system and then beat the hell out of it... see if I could bring it back and if not... stick in the restore disk and make everything happy again... 

This is sort of an excercise in that direction from someone surrounded by Linux for Dummies, Apache for Dummies, Linux programming for dummies... and an ever growing collection of other books on the related subjects being stacked at my office door by my "very humored by the situation" software engineer girlfriend... <g>

They may not be where I want them.. but damnit Jim.. I'm an artist not a linux guru!! And they work!

WS