| Invalid link error when searching [message #199189] |
Thu, 21 February 2013 08:15  |
Galen
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Location: New Virginia, IA
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I've been doing to searching on the forum, to keep from asking questions that I'm sure you all have answered a 100 times already. I get this error sometimes:
"You have followed an invalid link. Please notify the webmaster how you got here."
Any ideas? Are some forum entries archived or something?
Thanks,
Galen
Galen Briggs
New Virginia, Iowa
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| Re: Invalid link error when searching [message #199193 is a reply to message #199189] |
Thu, 21 February 2013 08:39  |
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Matt Colie
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| Galen wrote on Thu, 21 February 2013 09:15 |
I've been doing to searching on the forum, to keep from asking questions that I'm sure you all have answered a 100 times already. I get this error sometimes:
"You have followed an invalid link. Please notify the webmaster how you got here."
Any ideas? Are some forum entries archived or something?
Thanks,
Galen
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Galen,
This is not uncommon, but it is fortunately relatively rare.
What often happens is an extra character is accidentally included in the link URL. As it is often a period (IT people call it a dot) or a forward slash at the end of the link URL, it is easy if you collect the URL by highlighting then collecting (ctrl-C) and then paste (ctrl-V) it to an open address and fix the end character. On this site, it is also worth your while to read down the thread and look for where another repaired the link.
All of the recent forum traffic is archived, but Google has a hard time with a Boolean search so it can be tedious to use.
Matt
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
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| Re: Invalid link error when searching [message #199206 is a reply to message #199189] |
Thu, 21 February 2013 10:15 |
rcjordan
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>it is fortunately relatively rare
No, the problem isn't rare. I get it frequently when I'm searching for older threads.
I assumed that the forum setup had been changed some time in the past and that all the old threads lacked redirects to the moved thread. That's where I see this type of errors in forums most often.
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