I have a big problem – Google and others doesn’t index my forum. Forum is online for six months. I don’t know how to resolve it. Can anybody help me? Adress is http://www.sanzdrave.cz/forum (WordPress pages and posts are indexed.) Thanks for replies!

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

The reason for this is that you bbPress/forum pages are returning a header of 404 (Not Found) instead of 200 (OK).

Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:29:52 GMT

Server: Apache

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Last-Modified: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:29:52 GMT

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404 Not Found

 

But the page is clearly there. You need this fix:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load

Also described here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/strange-404-report-i-firebug#post-9551

[@_ck_ Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

Speaking of the 404’s this is worryingly more common than should be with bbPress for some reason. I’ve found a few dozen installs like that during my top100 spidering (out of 3000 so it’s a small number but still).

I wonder if bbPress could detect if it’s serving 404 response headers or if that happens outside of PHP so it’s not possible to detect.

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

I wish I understood more about why it actually happens on integrated installs. Is it when you include bbPress in WordPress, or the other way around?

[Inactive 16 years, 4 months ago]

I love you! That plugin described here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load completely resolved my problem:). Thank you!