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Getting Started: Scanning Your Website
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Screenshot 43 – The Tools Explorer and Access to Application, Tool and Scanner Settings
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Step 6: Configuring Custom 404 Error Pages
A 404 error page is the page which appears when an invalid URL is entered.
In many cases, rather than displaying the standard error 404, many websites
show a page formatted according to the look and feel of the website to inform
the user that the page requested does not exist. Custom 404 error pages do
not necessarily represent a server 404 error
(invalid URLs), and therefore
Acunetix WVS must be able to automatically identify these pages to detect
the difference between an invalid URL and a valid web page.
The scan wizard
will automatically try to detect whether your site uses
custom error pages. If your website does so, WVS will display the custom
error page
and will automatically attempt to locate the unique identifier of
such an error page; in this case Error 404: Page Not Found.
To configure the custom error page:
1. Highlight the text that is unique to this page. This text should not be found
on any other page on your website.
You can choose to configure HTML form input directly, without the login sequence
editor, from the Tools Explorer by selecting Configuration > Settings and then
selecting the appropriate Scanner Settings > HTML Forms node.
For more information see the chapter “Configuring Acunetix WVS” on page 131 of this
manual.
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