Phantom webpage - Adobe Tools

If you do not see this page on the remote site, then they are viewing an old
page from their browser's local cache. There's not really anything you can
do to fix that.

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Murray
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Adobe Community Expert (Dreamweaver)

What page?

Delete it from your server. Delete it from their cache. Delete it from the proxy's cache. Delete it from Google's cache.

Once something is public on the internet, it is impossible to hide.

True Jim, but as time goes, something gone public on the Internet, and some search web servers hang on to "old" information that has not been updated as it should.. if haven't updated, there will be some good chances of having 'bad' links as a consequence as time go and 'out of aged' web pages ages in time.

The next thing we know it, Internet changes very fast than your eye blink.

The page was deleted from the server, cache, and Google's cache.

In the end I solved the problem in a round about way .... by creating a new page and calling it the same name as the "phantom" page I cannot find. Then I gave my page a redirect code so it automatically goes to the correct URL.

ruth2100 - that is the only way to do it to make stubborn search engine cached pages go to where you want them to go instead of the old non-existent page. There is no way that I know of to make the search engine forget a cached page.

Use a 301 header for the dummy page - it will forget them since 301 means
it's permanently moved.

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Murray
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Adobe Community Expert (Dreamweaver)

There are, of course, different ways of adding the 301 header:

If your server runs PHP you can use the header() function.

On Apache servers you can use mode_rewrite

Some host have a sepcial feature in the control panels for 301 headers.

....and you can do it in C, ASP, VB...

One of the easiest ways is to make a .htaccess file with the following content:

redirect 301 /pages/old.html <http://www.my.com/new.html>