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Hi,

I’m trying to use this metod to handle incorrect URLs, but can’t get it to work correctly.
The situation is:
http://www.domain.com/hotels/paris/ritz_hotel
template group: hotels
Then I got index template with a list of cities and separate template for each city that’s doing two things - if no hotel name in segment_3, then it shows list of all hotels in the city, if the hotel name is in segment_3, then it shows the hotel details.
Now, I want to get 404 every time someone will put incorrect URL.
For the index, I put:

{if segment_2 != ''}
  {redirect="404"}
{/if}

and it works fine (all the http://www.domain.com/hotels/parisasdkhagskdjh are redirected to 404).
For the city-template I did:

{if segment_3==""}
    Hotels in {segment_3}:
    1)
    2)
{if:elseif segment_3!="" AND segment_4!=""}
  {redirect="404"}
{if:elseif segment_3!=""}
    {exp:weblog:entries weblog="hotels" limit="1" dynamic="on" require_entry="yes"}
        {if no_results}
            {redirect="404"}
        {/if}
        
    Hotel: {title}
    {body}
    {/exp:weblog:entries}
{/if}

and the problem is that when URL is http://www.domain.com/hotels/paris/ it doing no_results redirect from 3rd if ... but shouldnt :(
Am I missing something? Could you please, help me with that?
EE 1.6.7 Build:  20090515

I did some template debug and test with the conditionals and it looks like even when segment_3 is not set EE parse the exp:weblog:entries tag inside if that - in my opinion - should be passed. Now, during the parse there is no results of the exp:weblog:entries (because segment_3 is not set) and that’s why EE do redirect.

Whet I remove require_entry=“yes” from the ee tag city level with hotels list works fine, but I can’t get 404 redirection for incorrect segment_3 (hotel name) because EE gets some other result to be show.

Is there any way out from this situation?

Is it normal EE behaviore that it parse all the exp tags in template first, and thet it do conditionals? I’m confiused 😖

I have got the exact same problem - anyone any ideas?

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