[wp-hackers] Custom DB error page

Viper007Bond viper at viper007bond.com
Mon Mar 10 06:11:33 GMT 2008


Maybe he's running an old SVN copy? *shrug*

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Computer Guru <computerguru at neosmart.net>
wrote:

> On 3/9/08, Joost de Valk <joost at joostdevalk.nl> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> >  I was playing around with the custom DB error page, and found out that
> >  it gives a 200 OK header by default, even though it, for instance,
> >  can't connect to the database... Now I can hardcode the error 500 into
> >  the error page, but my guess is this should be solved or at least
> >  documented elsewhere? Not giving a 500 error results in the risk of
> >  search engines indexing your error page...
>
> Definitely true.
>
> This was supposedly fixed a while back though:
> http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3471
> http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2409
>
> I wonder.
>
>
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> Director,
> NeoSmart Technologies
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