How to do 404s in ExpressionEngine
Ryan Battles put together a nice round-up of the ins and outs of ExpressionEngine 404 pages. And it’s all because of this:
In ExpressionEngine, if someone types in an incorrect page address, by default they are sent to the homepage. If they have typed in a proper template group name, but an invalid URL segment, they may see a working page and not know that they typed in an invalid URL.
Read through the entire write-up (which went through an extensive rewrite after great contributions in the comments) and don’t you dare skip the comments! There are a lot of great ways to handle 404s and we’ve all built a site that could use better handling of missing pages and incorrect URLs.
Related: Rob “Papa” Sanchez’s HTTP Header plugin.
Posted on Feb 21, 2011 by Ryan Irelan
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Ryan Battles — 13:30 on 02.22.2011
Thanks for the mention. It motivates me to find new topics to put out there for community reference!