Apache

Contest aimed toward students to participate and write code, documentation, research and quality assurance

Who doesn’t love a contest? We certainly do. Google believes strongly in students having opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math, and today at the Open Source Developers’ Conference in Brisbane, Australia, Google has announced the highly open participation contest to secondary school and high school students in open source software development.

I was recently playing with Google’s webmaster tools and ran into a problem with my custom error page. Although I have had it set up for some time, it was apparently incorrectly configured. Google complained ‘We’ve detected that your 404 file (file not found) error page returns a status of 200 (Success) in the header. ” which means that the page was found and they’re not happy.

In order to troubleshoot this, I connected to my web server using telnet. This enabled me to see the exact data that Apache is delivering in reply to the request. This is what you need to do