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Hello,

I have an index template listing a bunch of posts in the normal way through the weblog entries tag. i.e.:

/template_group/

To read an article in from this page, I point visitors to:

/template_group/article/artile_title_here/

I also have paging enabled, so if a user wants to see older articles off the index page, they go to a URL like this:

/template_group/P10/

etc.

The problem I am having is that a user visiting a URL like this:

/template_group/blajiophopaiheg/

Is not shown a 404 page; rather, they are shown the index template. I have strict URLs enabled already and have read the articles telling me to use a combination of ‘require-entry=“yes”’ and the ‘if no results’ conditional. The problem is that from what I can tell I want to do something like this on my index template in /template_group/:

{if segment_2 != '' && segment_2 != 'article'}
{redirect="404"}
{if:else}
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="blog" limit="5" paginate="bottom"}
display code here, etc
{/if}

The problem with this is that it breaks EE’s pagination, since the /P10/ part of the the URL is not ‘article’. Is there a way to both have pagination turned on, and show a 404 in this case? Is my only option to make something like /template_group/archive/ and force people who want to see older posts to look at that?

Thanks in advance.

Yes, it would be easier to use EE’s default URL structure here, i.e. http://example.com/index.php/group/template/url_title.

/template_group/ really refers to /template_group/index/.
Otherwise you might have to use some PHP.

OK, I will make an archive template or something then.

I dunno if this is already changed in 2.1, or if I should file a feature request, but it would be great if the built-in pagination feature could recognize its own pagination links as “valid” in the same way it recognizes a segment 2 URL title as “valid” when using the require_entry=“yes” parameter.

Thanks for your help!

Sounds like you have a workaround you can use. Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.