CODEWITHSUNDEEP
zend-frameworkhttp-status-code-404
Still Questioning
Still Questioning

Reputation: 690

Page renders on browsers but throws "404 page not found" for SEO crawlers and/or requests made by program. What could be the issue?

I built a site out of ZF and installed it fine on my server. I have the MVC structure and use custom routing (for SEO purposes) as below:

mysite.com/controller.html

mysite.com/controller/action.html

Generally, everything is working fine but the only problem is that SE crawlers won't find any .html files. If i open the "Activity" window from Safari, I see all the css and other files being referenced/read fine but not the page itself.

So, the page renders fine on a browser but SE crawlers or any program that made the request won't find the page. I'm wondering if it's an Apache issue. My .htaccess file is the same file that shipped with the ZF.

I really appreciate any advise/suggestions/comments!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 289

Answers (1)

Tim Fountain
Tim Fountain

Reputation: 33148

Is it possible that your app is serving all pages with a 404 status code? So browsers and crawlers are getting the same thing, but the browser will render the content whereas the crawlers ignore it. I've seen some people use the Error Controller in ZF as a way of doing routing (not a good idea), where the Error Controller 'catches' all requests and then examines the params to determine what to display.

If this isn't your problem please could you edit your question to include:

  • How it is you know that crawlers are getting a 404
  • Some more info on how you are doing your routing

Also if you can provide an example URL we can check the headers that are being returned.

Upvotes: 1

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