I'm just wondering... when I try to remove a link from Google's index
I get refused on the basis of too many redirects, presumably because I
have a custom 404, so I'm wondering if I remove the redirect in the
..htaccess file and then I thought, can I just comment this out, like
you do in an html page or REM in DOS?

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Big Bill wrote:

> I'm just wondering... when I try to remove a link from Google's index
> I get refused on the basis of too many redirects, presumably because I
> have a custom 404, so I'm wondering if I remove the redirect in the
> .htaccess file and then I thought, can I just comment this out, like
> you do in an html page or REM in DOS?

Yup:

# this is a comment in
# an .htaccess file
# :-)

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On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:19:21 +0200, Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl>
wrote:

>Big Bill wrote:
>
>> I'm just wondering... when I try to remove a link from Google's index
>> I get refused on the basis of too many redirects, presumably because I
>> have a custom 404, so I'm wondering if I remove the redirect in the
>> .htaccess file and then I thought, can I just comment this out, like
>> you do in an html page or REM in DOS?
>
>Yup:
>
># this is a comment in
># an .htaccess file
># :-)

Thanks Els. No need for a closing tag?

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Big Bill wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:19:21 +0200, Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl>
> wrote:
>
>>Big Bill wrote:
>>
>>> I'm just wondering... when I try to remove a link from Google's index
>>> I get refused on the basis of too many redirects, presumably because I
>>> have a custom 404, so I'm wondering if I remove the redirect in the
>>> .htaccess file and then I thought, can I just comment this out, like
>>> you do in an html page or REM in DOS?
>>
>>Yup:
>>
>># this is a comment in
>># an .htaccess file
>># :-)
>
> Thanks Els. No need for a closing tag?

# Nope ;-)

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Big Bill wrote:

> I'm just wondering... when I try to remove a link from Google's index
> I get refused on the basis of too many redirects, presumably because I
> have a custom 404, so I'm wondering if I remove the redirect in the
> .htaccess file and then I thought, can I just comment this out, like
> you do in an html page or REM in DOS?


Is your custom 404 page sending a "404 Not Found" header? If a page is not
sending a "404 Not Found" header Google will not remove the URL with the
URL removal tool. It shouldn't matter whether it is a custom 404 page or
not as long as it sends the right header.

You can download the livehttpheaders extension for Firefox to check what
kinds of headers a page is sending.

You can send the 404 header with some PHP. There's a trick though -- PHP
sometimes will send an incorrect "404 Ok" header, which requires different
syntax to fix. I can look for the snippet if you need it.

Found the snippet:

If PHP as Apache module:

<?php
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
?>

If PHP as CGI:

<?php
header("Status: 404 Not Found");
?>

See also http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php#66254

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:44:16 -0400, z <nospam@no.invalid> wrote:

>Big Bill wrote:
>
>> I'm just wondering... when I try to remove a link from Google's index
>> I get refused on the basis of too many redirects, presumably because I
>> have a custom 404, so I'm wondering if I remove the redirect in the
>> .htaccess file and then I thought, can I just comment this out, like
>> you do in an html page or REM in DOS?
>
>
>Is your custom 404 page sending a "404 Not Found" header? If a page is not
>sending a "404 Not Found" header Google will not remove the URL with the
>URL removal tool. It shouldn't matter whether it is a custom 404 page or
>not as long as it sends the right header.
>
>You can download the livehttpheaders extension for Firefox to check what
>kinds of headers a page is sending.
>
>You can send the 404 header with some PHP. There's a trick though -- PHP
>sometimes will send an incorrect "404 Ok" header, which requires different
>syntax to fix. I can look for the snippet if you need it.
>

I commented the line out in the .htaccess file so I'll try again with
the url removal tool in a couple hours.

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On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:52:35 -0400, z <nospam@no.invalid> wrote:

>Found the snippet:
>
>If PHP as Apache module:
>
><?php
> header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
>?>
>
>If PHP as CGI:
>
><?php
> header("Status: 404 Not Found");
>?>
>
>See also http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php#66254

Thanks, but it ain't php!

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Big Bill wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:52:35 -0400, z <nospam@no.invalid> wrote:
>
>>Found the snippet:
>>
>>If PHP as Apache module:
>>
>><?php
>> header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
>>?>
>>
>>If PHP as CGI:
>>
>><?php
>> header("Status: 404 Not Found");
>>?>
>>
>>See also http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php#66254
>
> Thanks, but it ain't php!

If it's running on Apache, you can get it to execute PHP in any kind of file
(as far as I know, although I've only done it with .html and .htm files).

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:06:39 GMT, Big Bill <kruse@cityscape.co.uk>
wrote:

>On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:44:16 -0400, z <nospam@no.invalid> wrote:
>
>>Big Bill wrote:
>>
>>> I'm just wondering... when I try to remove a link from Google's index
>>> I get refused on the basis of too many redirects, presumably because I
>>> have a custom 404, so I'm wondering if I remove the redirect in the
>>> .htaccess file and then I thought, can I just comment this out, like
>>> you do in an html page or REM in DOS?
>>
>>
>>Is your custom 404 page sending a "404 Not Found" header? If a page is not
>>sending a "404 Not Found" header Google will not remove the URL with the
>>URL removal tool. It shouldn't matter whether it is a custom 404 page or
>>not as long as it sends the right header.
>>
>>You can download the livehttpheaders extension for Firefox to check what
>>kinds of headers a page is sending.
>>
>>You can send the 404 header with some PHP. There's a trick though -- PHP
>>sometimes will send an incorrect "404 Ok" header, which requires different
>>syntax to fix. I can look for the snippet if you need it.
>>
>
>I commented the line out in the .htaccess file so I'll try again with
>the url removal tool in a couple hours.
>
>BB

And I did, and it seems to have worked. The request didn't get the
usual denial. It seems to be underway. Let's wait and see.

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