Help! My host is stealing my 404 traffic?! WTF

[digifan]

It is pretty weird... you type in

http://dreamdesigns4u.com and the site loads fine.
Now go to http://www.dreamdesigns4u.com/m1/ and click through the pages.. since there is no join page, my own 404 page should redirect the visitors to another site, a mock tgp of mine but you'll see it goes to a site run by a US church.. how's that?
It is paid hosting and was the birthday present of an Austrian programmer friend of mine.

Oh shit. What can I do?

[Oracle Porn]

you got spyware...

[liquidmoe]

Hit up your host on icq or via email, they may just have a global 404 setup in Apache and if you dont have something more local either in your VirtualHost or in your .htaccess to redirect your 404 where you want it to go, it gets redirected there.

If you have trouble reaching them, just put an .htaccess into your document root which states the following:

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.yahoo.com

[JasonB]

Are you sure you have your own .htaccess file & a 404 specified?

Some hosts have catch-all 404's, so if you dont specify your own, it will go to theirs. ...no sense in wasting 404 traffic with a blank white page.

[BVF]

my old host used to send my 404's to the host's main page. I never bothered to contact my new host since I don't really mess with 404's but it just gives you a standard 404 page.

[digifan]

I don't think it is spyware.. I have a mac and made a screenshot. And the link they send the traffic is missing an "s", it is http://www.dreamdesign4u.com and not http://www.dreamdesigns4u.com , it is odd.

Thanks I am redoing my .htacess file again.

[digifan]

Originally posted by BVF
my old host used to send my 404's to the host's main page. I never bothered to contact my new host since I don't really mess with 404's but it just gives you a standard 404 page.

Thanks man,

I uploaded another .htaccess and overwrote the existing file.

[cluck]

Who the fuck runs an adult host and redirects 404 traffic to a christian site?

[Smokey The Bear]

Looks like a hand typo

[digifan]

An Austrian paid hosting company.. the new .htaccess does not seem to work for me either.

[Smokey The Bear]

Originally posted by cluck
Who the fuck runs an adult host and redirects 404 traffic to a christian site?

nah ts a hand typo the domain is missing an "s" heh

[liquidmoe]

Originally posted by digifan
An Austrian paid hosting company.. the new .htaccess does not seem to work for me either.

have you contacted their tech support, any word? that would seem to be the first step.

[Smokey The Bear]

The 2 sites are on completely different hosts. Its a hand typo in the 404 redirect

[Vox]

Originally posted by BVF
my old host used to send my 404's to the host's main page. I never bothered to contact my new host since I don't really mess with 404's but it just gives you a standard 404 page.

You're losing money by not redirecting that 404 traffic, send to a topsite, fpa or even back to your main page.

[digifan]

Originally posted by Smokey The Bear
Looks like a hand typo

Exactly.. the difference is one letter only.. tricky.
I am moving that site as soon as possible.

If you go and click through the design sample links, two pages do work, the missing join page takes you to the church page. http://www.dreamdesigns4u.com/m1/ .

The .htaccess file works with extremerack as magic.

[Smokey The Bear]

<code>< !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN" >
< html >< head >
< title >302 Found< /title >
< /head >< body >
< h1 >Found< /h1 >
< p >The document has moved < a href="http://www.dreamdesign4u.com/" >here< /a >.< /p >
< hr / >
< address>Apache/2.0.40 Server atwww.dreamdesigns4u.com Port 80< /address >
< /body >< /html >
< /code >

[digifan]

Originally posted by liquidmoe
have you contacted their tech support, any word? that would seem to be the first step.

The server and host are in Austria, they are sleeping now

[digifan]

I changed it again and can't access my site at all.

[digifan]

Thanks Smokey

It is back but it was down for half an hour.. I am hopeful it will be ok now.