[TYPO3] 404 pageNotFound_handling

[Robert Markula]

Dmitry Dulepov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Robert Markula wrote:
>> Now there is a nice article in [1], explaining the advantages of the 
>> new error handling in Typo3 4.0.2.
>>
>> As explained in the article, I created an error page in the root of my 
>> website with a explanation of what's going in. It has the alias '404' 
>> (I use realURL), and in the install tool I set
>> $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['FE']['pageNotFound_handling'] = '/404/';
>>
>> Sooo... when calling a non-existing page, the correct error page is 
>> shown. Good. But in the apache log, I can see that the wrong header 
>> (200) is sent.
> 
> Are you sure it is sent to the client? Typo3 does internal HTTP request 
> to web server to fetch this page and it will appear with code 200 in 
> logs. Typo3 will send then content of this page with 404 code to client. 
> You can use this tool to check status code of any page:
>     http://rexswain.com/httpview.html

You are right; the correct status is sent to the client.
Is this the reason why AWstats (the TYPO3 extension) doesn't display 
these error codes?

Regards,
Ro