Configuration

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