I tested again — it’s still broken. They must be using IP records to choose locale (since the HTTP headers I’m sending them only show that my computer is localized to the US; I’m just physically in France), then they are showing any 404 as if it were a parked domain.
I think they screwed up when set up the 1&1 404 page setup for non-US locales (or at least non-English locales). Or maybe they just didn’t bother?
Notes on testing this:
1) You need a domain on 1&1 shared hosting with no custom 404 page. http://tellmelater.com isn’t active yet, so you can use it for testing. (I’m leaving it broken….)
2) Access a non-existent page (like http://tellmelater.com/notfound.html) on that domain from a computer in a non-English speaking country.
If anyone tests from within Canada or the UK, let me know if it’s broken there as well (and you see a page like for a parked domain)… I’m not sure if this is broken for ALL non-US access, or just access from non-English-speaking countries.
@Stephen — thanks, I overlooked that… absolutely, no need to feed another one. I’ve switched the examples over to example.com (note to other readers: “example.com” is reserved for exactly this use and isn’t available as a real domain), plus added a rel=”nofollow” to the 1&1 FAQ page link, since it’s not much use to non 1&1 customers either, and 1&1 certainly isn’t paying me to advertise them.
But is there any other way to use the error404 page and have it only for a specific domain? I wanted the error page to still have my site’s theme but also the information you have written here.
I host a personal domain and a business domain on my account and do not care about the error404 parking for my personal domain, only the business domain.
I didn’t think it was possible but wanted to double check because from what I understand this problem is exactly what the article is written to explain.
Hiya,
I think Sedo got this all fixed up.
Ciao.
I tested again — it’s still broken. They must be using IP records to choose locale (since the HTTP headers I’m sending them only show that my computer is localized to the US; I’m just physically in France), then they are showing any 404 as if it were a parked domain.
I think they screwed up when set up the 1&1 404 page setup for non-US locales (or at least non-English locales). Or maybe they just didn’t bother?
Notes on testing this:
1) You need a domain on 1&1 shared hosting with no custom 404 page. http://tellmelater.com isn’t active yet, so you can use it for testing. (I’m leaving it broken….)
2) Access a non-existent page (like http://tellmelater.com/notfound.html) on that domain from a computer in a non-English speaking country.
If anyone tests from within Canada or the UK, let me know if it’s broken there as well (and you see a page like for a parked domain)… I’m not sure if this is broken for ALL non-US access, or just access from non-English-speaking countries.
Is there any way to turn the 404 error messages into a rss feed?
Edit .htaccess
Insert
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
Wait a few seconds and your wordpress 404 error page should work
@iRipoff: I’m not sure what you’re looking for. Why would you want an RSS feed of 404s?
@arthur: I’m not writing about wordpress 404 issues — this post is strictly about a problem with 1&1′s default 404 pages.
You may want to unlink “the-domain-name.com” or use example.com. That domain is “parked” with ads and is no different than linking to Sedoparking.com
@Stephen — thanks, I overlooked that… absolutely, no need to feed another one. I’ve switched the examples over to example.com (note to other readers: “example.com” is reserved for exactly this use and isn’t available as a real domain), plus added a rel=”nofollow” to the 1&1 FAQ page link, since it’s not much use to non 1&1 customers either, and 1&1 certainly isn’t paying me to advertise them.
Thanks so much – a really useful post!
Rob,
Thanks for the article. Helps me greatly.
But is there any other way to use the error404 page and have it only for a specific domain? I wanted the error page to still have my site’s theme but also the information you have written here.
I host a personal domain and a business domain on my account and do not care about the error404 parking for my personal domain, only the business domain.
I didn’t think it was possible but wanted to double check because from what I understand this problem is exactly what the article is written to explain.
Thanks in advance for any advice given.
Thanks,
Shane