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I just noticed that the current GL-version doesn`t have normal 404-pages anymore. It delivers content if a page cannot befound. Thus several pages are not being delisted in Google.

What can I do?

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it concerns static pages and stories

I have a similar issue except I needed to change the id of a staticpage and needed a 301 redirect with the old id. I couldn't get the redirect to function properly on IIS so I hacked the staticpage plugin. I hate hacking plugins as it can make upgrades a pain but here is what I did around line 84 fo the file \public_html\staticpages\index.php

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One of the Geeklog Core Developers.

Wouldn`t normal 404-pages be a matter of GL rather than the plugin? I just tested a few plugins an they all display some sort of text rather than a 404. Couldn`t one hack GL a little?

For stories sure, you would just have to make sure that the reason the story is not available to the user is not a security privilege problem.

For 404 errors with other plugins Geeklog could handle the page but it would have to check with the plugin if the item exists or not.

With my 301 problem Geeklog would need the extra piece of info of which page it should redirect too depending on the page requested. For this reason I was thinking of creating a small plugin for it or adding it to one of the other admin plugins out there.

Tom

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One of the Geeklog Core Developers.

I made this 404 a feature request: http://project.geeklog.net/tracking/view.php?id=1199 I don`t know with the 301 it i a separate thing but certainly also a good idea.

Stupid me. I had checked this before I hacked the staticpages plugin but I missed the blank page format options.

Anyways for staticpages set the Page Format to Blank page. You then enable Execute Php and then put



For your 404 file not found error

For a 301 redirect you would put

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One of the Geeklog Core Developers.

So do I need your above hack then? Or just that one line?
header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found'; BTW, this alone dos not work.

You do not need the hack. I just tried the 404 error code and it worked fine (the browser returned a page not found message instead of Geeklog)

Lets review what you need to do.

1. Create a new staticpage

2. Fill in the following Fields:
Title: 404 Not Found
Page Format: Blank Page
ID: the id of the staticpage you want not found.
Content: header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found';
PHP: execute PHP

3. Save the Page

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One of the Geeklog Core Developers.

O.k., I`m trying that and I only receive a blank page without a title. The URL is the page that is not to turn up but to produce a 404.
php is enabled with static pages.

That is probably working then. Google Search Bot would look at the header and see a 404 error.

You can check for sure by entering your url here

http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers

It you want a 404 message that a visitor can read you would have to add in some html.

Tom

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One of the Geeklog Core Developers.