The default MyBB forum/thread/user not found/does not exist pages return HTTP status code 200 (success) currently. I think that PHP's http_response_code function should be used and make those pages return the correct HTTP 404 status code.
Could this be extended to make the 'no permissions' error page return a status code of 403 (forbidden) or 401 (unauthorised)?
I think the Google SEO plugin does proper 404s however this would be a nice enhancement to MyBB.
I would definitely like to see this in the core too.
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Google SEO does it - not just 404 but any code you like, it's customizable for each error label. Basically you can assign an error code to each $lang[error_*] if you like, so it also works for plugin errors as long as they're raised the same way and the error message is present in $lang.
Some hosts do not pass through custom error pages (and I don't know how proxies like cloudflare interpret them) so it should be a setting.
(2017-10-06, 03:43 PM)frostschutz Wrote: [ -> ]Google SEO does it - not just 404 but any code you like, it's customizable for each error label. Basically you can assign an error code to each $lang[error_*] if you like, so it also works for plugin errors as long as they're raised the same way and the error message is present in $lang.
Some hosts do not pass through custom error pages (and I don't know how proxies like cloudflare interpret them) so it should be a setting.
Yep, it's one of the reasons I use Google SEO
Worthwhile trying to fix it in the core, though I don't know if we'll end up going to the lengths of allowing custom codes per error string, though there will definitely be a setting (enabled by default) to disable it.