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I have to deal with this on nearly every site I build, and I really don’t know the best way to handle it.

My problem with ExpressionEngine’s standard way of dealing with 404s is that it won’t throw an error if the template group is correct in the URL. So if I have a template group called “News” and someone navigates to http://myurl.com/news/wrong_article_url, it will display the index template of the News group, instead of a 404.

I’ve tried using the .htaccess file to redirect to a static 404 page, but it doesn’t seem to work:

ErrorDocument 404 /404.html

Is there something special I need to be doing? What about 500 errors?

How do you deal with server errors in ExpressionEngine?

Jovia web studio did a write-up on 404s in EE that I think might be what you’re looking for.

http://joviawebstudio.com/blog/guide_to_404_pages_with_expressionengine/

Hope it helps.

GREAT resource, thanks John.

So I’ve been trying to implement the 404 behavior from that article, but it doesn’t seem to be working!

I’ve enabled strict URLs in my template preferences. Here’s the code from my template:

{exp:channel:entries channel="services" limit="1" require_entry="yes"}
                
                {if no_results OR segment_2 != ''}
                
                 {redirect="site/404"}
                
                {if:else}
                
                 {body}
                
                {/if}
                
{/exp:channel:entries}

If I navigate to “/services/boo”, it just displays the empty services template. No redirect.

I am running the Structure module on this site and have the Zoo Triggers add-on installed. Would that have anything to do with it?