By fuzzydru on

hi,
i currently experience a really strange behavior ot several drupal installs, which I'm not sure if it is related to my hosting provider or the Drupal install.

the setup:
Drupal: 4.6 and 4.7
special modules: search404

the problem:
whenever there is a request for a non-existing page (i.e. http://www.rubyrange.de/doesnotexist ) the website produces a 'Access Denied' error, which rather should be a 'Page not found' error. the strange thing is, this has been working before like it is suppose to. now it only gives this wierd behavior.

the testing:
i tried to see where the problem could be by removing all 'error message' settings in drupals core settings, even tried using a static node. nothing did anything. it just keeps returning 'Access Denied' for pages that cannot be found.
my hosing provider referred my to the .htaccess file, which i can't see anything wrong with.

#
# Apache/PHP/Drupal settings:
#

# Protect files and directories from prying eyes.
<Files ~ "(\.(inc|module|pl|sh|sql|theme|engine|xtmpl)|Entries|Repositories|Root|scripts|updates)$">
  Order deny,allow
  Deny from all
</Files>

# Set some options.
Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks

# Customized error messages.
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

# Set the default handler.
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

# Override PHP settings. More exist in sites/default/settings.php, but
# the following cannot be changed at runtime. The first IfModule is
# for Apache 1.3, the second for Apache 2.
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
  php_value magic_quotes_gpc                0
  php_value register_globals                0
  php_value session.auto_start              0
  php_value session.use_only_cookies		1 
  php_value session.use_trans_sid			0
</IfModule>

<IfModule sapi_apache2.c>
  php_value magic_quotes_gpc                0
  php_value register_globals                0
  php_value session.auto_start              0
  php_value session.use_only_cookies		1 
  php_value session.use_trans_sid			0
</IfModule>

# Reduce the time dynamically generated pages are cache-able.
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
  ExpiresByType text/html A1
</IfModule>

# Various rewrite rules.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on

  # Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory and
  # the rewrite rules are not working properly.
  #RewriteBase /drupal

  # Rewrite old-style URLs of the form 'node.php?id=x'.
  #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  #RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([^&]+)$
  #RewriteRule node.php index.php?q=node/view/%1 [L]

  # Rewrite old-style URLs of the form 'module.php?mod=x'.
  #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  #RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^mod=([^&]+)$
  #RewriteRule module.php index.php?q=%1 [L]

  # Rewrite current-style URLs of the form 'index.php?q=x'.
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

# $Id: .htaccess,v 1.66 2005-03-20 19:15:00 dries Exp $

the solution:
anyone???????

thanks for any replies, i just cant get my head around it....
felix