Watching html errors grow???

[D-flyer]

Hi all,

I am a little confused here. I am using awstats and I see the 302(Moved temporarily (redirect))/301(Moved permanently (redirect)) error reports growing.

so i added this in my robots.txt
ErrorDocument 302 http://www.mysite.com
ErrorDocument 301 http://www.mysite.com

that should prevent the 301/302 errors from growing, right???

[sid egg]

AWStats will still count them as errors, but they will be sent to "mysite.com", however, there is NO WAY you want to rewrite your 30(1|2)'s to your homepage, 302/1s are redirects that is a BAD idea.

[D-flyer]

hmm, I am thinking here and you are absolute right.

I just wanted to get those errors out of awstats. If it's my rule it's no error.

I know I have 2/3 domain redirect to a subdomain. So you right if I overrule my redirect peepz will never reach my other domains. Am I right?

[someonewhois]

Just an off topic correction: Those are HTTP errors. HTTP is the protocol in which browsers like Firefox, IE, Opera, etc. as well as servers such as Apache, IIS, etc. have implemented to send data. HTTP isn't just for HTML. HTML errors are things like "<abjasldkf> is not a valid HTML tag."

Why not just put a blank robots.txt file there? That's what I do.

[ServerUnion]

so i added this in my robots.txt
ErrorDocument 302 http://www.mysite.com
ErrorDocument 301 http://www.mysite.com

This is not valid for the robots.txt. the only 2 items you can place in the file are agents and dissalow. Here is an article I wrote a while back on that topic. http://www.livearticles.org/article.php?articleID=61

The 301/302 errors are fine, just tells you that someone accessed the URL in questions and was referred to the new page. I wouldn't worry about it as that means the application is working as designed. 404 errors are the bad ones meaning the page was not found.

[sid egg]

Oh, I didn't even notice that I thought he said htaccess... loll