What is a 404 error?

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This doesn't actually appear to be an OSQA-related question, so it really doesn't belong here at meta.osqa.net. I have allowed it because of the small chance that it is somehow vaguely related to your effort to get OSQA running.

(22 Aug '11, 04:05) rickross ♦♦

GIYF, here is the result of a simple search ( thanks to http://www.404errorpages.com ):

The Error 404 "Page not found" is the error page displayed whenever someone asks for a page that’s simply not available on your site. The reason for this is that there may be a link on your site that was wrong or the page might have been recently removed from the site. As there is no web page to display, the web server sends a page that simply says "404 Page not found".

The 404 error message is an HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) standard status code. This "Not Found" response code indicates that although the client could communicate to the server, the server could not find what was requested or it was configured not to fulfill the request.

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answered 22 Aug '11, 04:03

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edited 22 Aug '11, 04:04

404 means that file does not exist on specific server, or is wrongly redirected by htaccess.

Try it here

http://meta.osqa.net/some/bad/title

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answered 22 Aug '11, 07:09

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