[support] 404 blank page

[Neil Coghlan]

Am I right in thinking this was a change not between major versions but 
from, for example, 5.5 and 5.6?

I just remember doing an upgrade and suddenly my 404 pages were coming out 
95% blank as I use blocks for all menus.

Neil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie at users.sourceforge.net>
To: <support at drupal.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [support] 404 blank page


> Quoting David Rothstein <drothstein at gmail.com>:
>
>> Not sure how your site is set up exactly, but blocks in Drupal do not
>> show up on 404 pages, and this is by design (for performance reasons).
>> It's either a feature or a bug, depending on who you talk to :)
>>
>> So if you have lots of your content in blocks, that would explain it.
>>
>> There's a lot of discussion here (http://drupal.org/node/129762) and
>> here (http://drupal.org/node/116895)... you might be able to find a
>> solution that would work for you in those threads.
>>
>
> And as has been discussed, should be an option the admin can either
> turn on or off.  The problem I found with no blocks is the user is left
> feeling helpless at trying to figure out what to do next.  With the
> blocks the user has a menu of options.
>
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