404 handling

On 30-Mar-06, at 1:08 PM, Ken Rickard wrote:

> We've been doing some heavy testing on 4.6 and found a
piece that  
> is good (I think) for all Drupal versions.
>
> In .htaccess, Drupal's index.php file is defined as
the default 404  
> handler.
>
> This can cause real problems when an image or other
file is  
> missing,  A little research by our tech guys gives us
this:
>
> # This overrides the Drupal 404 handler for files that
should never  
> be handled by Drupal
> <FilesMatch
"\.(gif|jpe?g|png|html|css|js)$">
>   ErrorDocument 404 default
> </FilesMatch>
>
> This makes Apache handle 404 errors for typical html
and image files.
>
> Should this be submitted officially?

Yes....*any* idea should get "officially"
submitted as an  
issue...whether or not it gets applied is a separate issue
(i.e. this  
won't be applied in 4.6, will highly unlikely make it into
4.7).  
Standard procedure would be to submit an issue, then email
the dev  
list with a pointer for further comment if it is of wider
interest/ 
needs discussion.

Ken -- thanks for bring this up.

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Ken Rickard wrote:
> This can cause real problems when an image or other
file is missing,  A 
> little research by our tech guys gives us this:

What sort of real problems?

I tried adding this right after the original ErrorDocument
statement and 
saw no change. http://localhost/dru
pal/yarr.png was still served up with 
a 404 from Drupal.

And I think this is how it should be. All 404s are logged by
Drupal, 
which is a good thing. And all the 404 pages look the same,
also a good 
thing.

What am I missing?

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