Forum Issue: Initial 404 screens.

Paul · 2015-07-02 14:33

When I first open the forums.parallax.com page I get the header logo, the blue bar, and then "404 page not found" under that. After clicking the logo a couple of times, the forum will open.

I haven't seen this mentioned before so I thought I'd say something.

It looks like MY link was actually forums.parallax.com/forum.php. My bad. I'll post this since others may have the same problem.

I like the new look, btw. It looks modern and not something I used on XP. Good luck on the migration.

Oldbitcollector (Jeff) · 2015-07-02 14:39

I'm seeing this as well.

Could I please suggest that Parallax create a little forum.php code which contains a quick HTML redirect to the proper page. Something along these lines would probably fix the problem. It'll open the site in a full page frame, but solve the issue for those of us seeing this error.

<head></head>
  <frameset rows="*">
    <frame src="[url=view-source:http://192.185.106.223/%7Estraub/]0[/url]">
      <noframes>
     <p>This frameset document contains:
     <ul>
       <li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://forums.parallax.com">http://forums.parallax.com</a></li>
     </ul>
     </noframes>
  </frameset>
</html>

davejames · 2015-07-02 15:28

It looks like MY link was actually forums.parallax.com/forum.php. My bad. I'll post this since others may have the same problem.

...ditto - you weren't the only one.

Courtney Jacobs · 2015-07-02 15:45

Even if this didn't turn out to be an issue to report, I'm glad that someone experienced this.

Some old bookmarks may not work anymore, so this is a good time to update them.

GordonMcComb · 2015-07-03 03:00

Courtney, the problem still needs resolution on Parallax's side, so it is indeed an issue. Google still lists the old forum index page in searches such as "parallax forum." The old page needs a rewrite rule of its own, because the rule for discussion pages will not catch it.
A good rule of thumb: if people have a page bookmarked, Google probably has it indexed. So verify by checking that page, simply by searching for it:
forums.parallax.com/forum.php

You'll see the first page of hits alone still has numerous unresolved links that either result in 404 codes or bad redirects to the forum index page. There should be rewrite rules for as many of these as possible.

Forum Issue: Initial 404 screens.

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