400 Bad Request

27thNub · #1 (**permalink**) 09-21-2004, 07:57 PM

Hello. My father and I currently run our home decor store at www.27thavenue.com and we've been doing research on how to get it ranked etc..etc.... I did some research on how X-cart is search engine friendly...I found out that there is a part in the shopping cart itself called 'HTML Catalog' it creates your entire catalog in HTML format for better indexing in the search engines...so I go into the admin area of my shopping cart software and create the catalog...after it created all the HTML files including the needed index.html file I looked and they ALL have this in them

"<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>400 Bad Request</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Bad Request</H1>
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

Client sent malformed Host header

<HR>
<ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.29 Server at users.properhosting.com Port 80</ADDRESS>
</BODY></HTML>
"

Obviously something went wrong when the shopping cart software was trying to generate the HTML pages, but I have no idea what it could possibly be that would do that. Is it something to do with permissions denied or what? Creating this HTML Catalog is the only way to get the site really indexed because it relies on .php pages with links like product.php?9087123=12323=cat123 which I read google only see's up to the ? which if you just link to the question mark it gives you errors hence no indexing.

Anyone have any ideas on why I might get that message? I can't even delete the folder that was created in the FTP access and I'm logging in through the main owner account! So I REALLY don't understand what's going on here. Any info is greatly appreciated. Thank you

mikmik · #2 (**permalink**) 09-22-2004, 06:40 AM

What version of x-cart you running?
I am doing work on 3.5.7, and I hear you, been through it!

You may very well have chmod concerns ie - there isn't proper read-write - execute priveledges for what you are trying to do. Set your 'categories' folder to '777'.

You may have to check the box for 'Drop old catalog before generating new one', pick 'Root Categories', and check 'Walk through subcategories'.
I also pick it to make 10 or 20 page passes at a time, and 'Use dashes in page titles', or whatever thw last one is.

You should go to the X-cart support forum, there is ton's of info on all this.
I use this page a lot: Some Interesting Topics to checkout if your new, and here is the home page: X-cart Support.
Download the help documentation from the X-cart site (not the forum) and it will show where all the templates are to fix that Doctype.

27thNub · #3 (**permalink**) 09-22-2004, 07:35 AM

I'm running 3.5.4 I actually found out that this particular version had a bug regarding the creation of the HTML Catalog....there was one line of code that needed to be added to html_catalog.php in the admin folder. So I got it all fixed now :)

I've set the public_html folder which is the root directory to 777 and it even confirms that but still there are folders that for some reason I cannot change or delete....I've put in a ticket to my hosting company and inquired as to why this is. Thanks for the reply

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