Elgg needs to send a 404 for requests that are not registered

[vazco]

If we set url in elgg_register_js or elgg_register_css to non-existing file in Elgg directory, main page is pulled instead of js/css. It would be much better if non-existent files would return error 404 in this case. Otherwise, it's hard to find which file has wrong path.

Maybe we could use some sort of handler for such files?

[cash]

Can you provide more details? I wasn't able to reproduce this.

[vazco]

example:
I have a file:
​http://mysite.com/mod/modname/vendors/javascript.js

When I declare (note typo in link):

elgg_register_js("javascript", "​http://mysite.com/mod/modname/vendors/javascript_typohre.js");

in firebug you can see Elgg tries to load link without success (this load don't appear in debug):
​http://mysite.com/mod/modname/vendors/javascript_typohre.js

and loads main page or activity afterwards:
​http://mysite.com/activity

If there was some convention, eg. to place all javascript in modname/vendors directory, we could declare:
elgg_register_js("javascript", "​http://mysite.com/vendors/modname/javascript_typohre.js");

and in case of typo, we could get error 404 instead of redirecting to main page - what takes additional processing.

There may be probably some other solution to this issue.

[cash]

I understand now. The problem is that the new rewrite rules grab all URLs if there is not a file. We need a general 404 page then.

[cash]

duplicate of #4103