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r2982
I understand what it’s doing but can someone enlighten me on why please?
Stuart
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Re: r2982
As I understand it a request for a non-existent favicon will now return a normal 404 error generated by the webserver itself. This avoids needless execution of Textpattern to attempt to serve that file, so it reduces server load.
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Now why didn’t I think of that? ;)
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#4 2008-10-05 08:51:43
- FireFusion
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Re: r2982
Doesn’t the rewrite method in Textpattern cause 404 for every missing graphic? Even CSS images?
Would this help?
# TXP 404 page for missing pages
ErrorDocument 404 /404-error/
# Simple 404 for missing files
<FilesMatch "(\.jpe?g|gif|png|bmp|ico)$">
ErrorDocument 404 "File Not Found"
</FilesMatch>Last edited by FireFusion (2008-10-05 09:12:15)
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Re: r2982
This would break if you upload an image on the files tab.
I think missing images (that are used in your design) is something that you should fix, not work around, while a favicon is still something a lot of websites don’t have, but browsers do keep looking for it.
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The effect of Textpattern-powered sites which lack a favicon is even more widespread: As the error_default page template, which will be served from many sites as a response for an inexistant /favicon.ico, contains a link to textpattern.com, our referrer log here gets littered with readahead browsers, spiders and bots travelling along that route.
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