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How to fix (HTTP 404 Errors)

Asked by Luiveton (4162points) August 20th, 2010
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I’m playing a game in Zwinky. Everytime I try and enter zwinktopia I find HTTP 404 error – Page cannot be found. I tried fixing it but I still coudn’t. What should I do. P.S: I already uninstalled it, it didn’t work.

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Fyrius's avatar

404 means the page you’re trying to visit isn’t there. I don’t know this game, but it sounds like the site might have stopped existing…
Or maybe you’re using a wrong address.

P.S. Zwinky seems to be popular and alive enough to be sure there’s no problem with the website. I think you’re probably using a wrong address.

Fyrius (14560points)“Great Answer” (3points)
MrItty's avatar

There is nothing you can do about a 404. The webmaster of the site you’re trying to use has to fix it.

MrItty (17406points)“Great Answer” (1points)
actuallery's avatar

The 404 page could mean that your connection is not active. You should refresh the page and if that doesn’t work, go back to original link and try again and if that doesn’t work then disconnect the connection then reconnect again then refresh the page and then if that doesn’t work then the page you are looking for does not exist.

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MrItty's avatar

@actuallery false. 404 is a server response code. It means that your client (web browser) successfully connected to the server, and requested a specific page. And the server told the client that the page requested did not exist. It has absolutely nothing to do with an inactive connection. If it was an inactive connection, you wouldn’t have gotten the 404. Your web browser wouldn’t have been able to connect to the server to begin with.

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actuallery's avatar

@Mritty – Just to test your theory, could you please disconnect your internet then click page.

If your connection is “busy” or lacking sufficient credit, or has reduced bandwidth available, that 404 page occurs.

actuallery (612points)“Great Answer” (0points)
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Another thing, the 404 page occurs if the site has too many users and access is not allowed. More high profile sites will give you a “sorry” page, like Twitter “Sorry, too many tweets, try again later”.

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MrItty's avatar

@actuallery you are clearly unaware of what a 404 error is. You seem to be equating any error message with “404”. I have neither the patience nor the time to educate you tonight. Sorry.

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actuallery's avatar

@Mritty – pffffttt!!

actuallery (612points)“Great Answer” (0points)
Fyrius's avatar

Anyway, googling the name “zwinktopia” leads to www.zwinktopia.com which is quite alive and well. Just go there.
With that covered, I don’t think there is any problem left.

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Luiveton's avatar

Thank you everyone. :)

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What are you even talking about?

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@Fyrius it’s a spammer. Just click “Flag as”, and ignore it.

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