404 error on Google Webmaster toools - http-status-code-404

I have some issues with 404´s on google web master tools.
Google is telling us this one is a 404 (is a real 404):
http://www.apartmentratings.com/VA-Midlothian-Woodlake-Village-Waterpoint.html
And that url is linked from:
http://www.apartmentratings.com/rate/VA-Midlothian-Crowne-at-Swift-Creek-Map.html
But that url, is not there, is not on the code, nothing.
I don´t know why google is saying we have a 404 there. I had to create some apache rules to avoid this, rewriting those urls with the "/rate" prefix.

click on "Mark as Fixed" under Crawl > Crawl Errors and see if it helps

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I bought an app template to mess around with, and when I'm trying to login in this case via Facebook it's calling the API I set up according to the guide.
It's calling
http://IP/mobileapp_api/api/registerUser
Now it's giving me the 404 error because the API folder does not exist, but when looking through the documentation and double-checking everything I also notice that he also doesn't have an API folder, but he's able to get a response just fine.
How is this possible?
Link for the video documentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1OTEbnD6CM&t=324s
I've tried to reach out to the developer, but with the current covid situation in his home country, I doubt I'll get a reply anytime soon, hence why I've come here.
Not sure why, but uploading the files via CPanel and not Filezilla somehow made it all work.

on what error log settings can I find app error logs that google clould compute engine apps throw

I've deployed an app using googles cloud compute engine service.
I get an error when I try to register a new user:
We're sorry, but something went wrong. If you are the application owner check the logs for more information.
I'm in the logs section of the google cloud console and it has all sorts of random logs I can look at but I cant find where the errors that the app coding itself caused caused are put, e.g. I'm sure its a mail configuration problem that is causing the error message for new registered users but I cant fix the problem until I find out what the actual error is.
Where exactly are actual app errors put, because they aren't displayed on the page the like in production on my local computer. (I'm using a rails app if that makes a difference to anything)
All errors are logged in the logging section, try applying filters or sorting the logs by date. Sometimes they take a little while to appear.

App Engine logs showing HTTP 301 for nonexistent URLs

I am running a website on Google App Engine. From time to time I get out-of-control bots or perhaps brute force hacking attempts that I see in my logs. Recently I've had a bot (I presume) trying to access administrator/index.php several times a second. That file doesn't exist on my site. If I try to access it, I get the standard 404 and this in my logs:
But for the bot I am seeing HTTP 301 in the logs and I'm wondering why. Does Google interpret the requests as a denial of service or other attack and automatically intervene? I haven't seen documentation stating as much, but I'm not sure why else I would be seeing the 301 instead of 404 for the same URL:
Does anyone have an explanation for this?
The log entires shown on the screenshots can be clicked & expanded to view additional information. As mentioned in the comment above two things could be checked there for further analysis of what's going on:
check the hostname of where the request came to & see if it's not the expected behaviour for that hostname.
if the json object is shown, navigate to protoPayload -> line -> [0] -> logMessage where something like redirecting "http://example.com/" to "https://www.example.com/" should be shown which could also clear things up a bit.

Importing apache logs into piwik

I am in the process of switching my site analytics from GA to Piwik and would like to incorporate all the historic data that I can. I have already concatenated the full trail of apache log files I have in my possession. However, what I do next is not at all clear to me and the Piwik documentation does not help. It says something along the lines of
python /path/to/piwik/misc/log-analytics/import_logs.py --url=http://analytics.example.com access.log
I have my concatenated log file, all.logs, in the log-analytics folder. I would have thought that I just need to issue
python /path/to/piwik/misc/log-analytics/import_logs.py all.logs
but that throws up an error message. When I provide the URL to the site in question too I get an error saying that it gets back an HTML document (naturally) which it does not like.
I'd be most grateful to anyone who might be able to put me on the right track here.
I think --url=http://analytics.example.com let's you set the URL of Piwik, not your website.

Joomla Redirect when Download File not Found

I have a website where customers can download msi files. Over time, I retire older version and drop them from my site.
I've noticed that a number of users are following links to the older file paths. When the do, they're seeing the following:
Not Found
The requested URL /files/VBADiff/VBADiff_Professional_Setup_2_0.msi was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
I would like to either display my custom 404 message or redirect them to the correct download path. Unfortunately I can't figure out how to do this - I'm a bit surprised that visitors aren't already seeing my 404 message. Can anyone help?
Edit: I'm using version 1.5.11 of Joomla.
File downloads, particularly direct links from an outside referrer do not instantiate the Joomla framework so nothing in Joomla is going to help your problem. Depending on the URLs you are using to get to the files, you will have to fix this issue with either a typical 301 redirect for URLs without query strings or mod_rewrite for those with.
You can use a redirect plugin for joomla 1.5 which also protocalls 404 accesses. I like this one: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/url-redirection/14676

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