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Choosing the Right 404 Page Strategy in MODX Projects
404 handling becomes more complex as soon as a site introduces language contexts, ecommerce flows, or custom routing. The original discussion here was really about choosing the right strategy, not just assigning an error
404 handling becomes more complex as soon as a site introduces language contexts, ecommerce flows, or custom routing. The original discussion here was really about choosing the right strategy, not just assigning an error page ID.
What Matters
- which resource should serve as the visible 404 page
- whether the response code still stays 404
- how the setup behaves when routing or context switching is involved
- whether ecommerce logic interferes with missing URLs
A custom 404 page is not only design polish. It is part of your routing architecture. If it is treated as an afterthought, odd edge cases appear exactly where the site is already under stress.
Fixing eForm Email Headers That Arrive as Base64 Gibberish
How to think about encoded eForm headers when messages arrive with unreadable subject or field labels in some mailbox setups.
Fixing phpThumb shell_exec Errors on Restricted Hosts
How to interpret phpThumb shell_exec failures when the host does not allow the ImageMagick command lookup it expects.