Force valid HTTP status 200/OK

[iceberg]

In the admin section there's an option : "Force valid HTTP status 200/OK" - yes/no.

Somebody pls tell me what's the meaning of that line. Should I make it yes ?
Thanks.

[Boby]

Some servers do not return any HTTP status headers on valid pages. For example Google needs and 200/OK header to crawl the page. If it doesn't get it the crawler will leave.

This feature send a status header (forced), but it's not needed for 99,99% of the servers because the web server does it automatically.

The other option "Force invalid HTTP status 200/OK" will send a 200/OK header even if the page does not exist and a 400/Not Found should be sent.

Boby

[iceberg]

That means if I make it yes, there will be no problem with search engines. Isn;t it ? :)

[Boby]

If you have a regular server configuration it does not matter if you turn it on or off. Search engines will get the same header (200/OK).