[TYPO3-hci] typo3 branding in error messages

[Martin Kutschker]

redacted user schrieb:
> Hello Team,
> 
> I don't know if this is the right place for the discussion of 
> typo3-related branding stuff, please correct me if i'm wrong.
> 
> I reported a feature request in the bugtracker [1] of typo3.org 
> regarding the fact that typo3 throws typo3-branded error messages in 
> frontend, regardless of typo3 is the reason for the error or not. e.g. 
> if no database connection was established. this behaviour, if appearing 
> on a live-site, can result in many pageviews of visitors, even google 
> can index this page.

Well, then the served HTTP headers and/or the pages META data are wrong.

The HTTP headers should be anything but 200, but I think they are 30x 
anyway. We could also add some meta data for robots as well.

> i don't loike the visual connection between the  error and typo3.
> i know, every sysadmin is responsible that this scenario never happens 
> etc blabla, BUT i saw it here and there in the last years occuring on 
> this and that website.
> 
> so, could anybody here on the list can decide on this topic what to do?

When the DB is down/unreachable TYPO3 can do little. All you could do in 
that case is to provide an installation wide HTML template. Maybe you 
can get more templates with a clever mapping of HTTP_HOST via a 
regexp/replace trick. But it must be simple enough to get into a config var.

Masi