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I have hit the limitation of the 404 redirect feature.

From the user guide: ExpressionEngine will only display the 404 Template if the requested Template Group in the URL does not exist.

Where do I go from here? How do I get people to see my 404 if them mistype an article name or something?

Thanks!

set “404 Page” from “Global Template Preferences” within Template Manager.

I already did that - it works if someone types http://www.mydomain.com/wrongurl.... BUT if they type http://www.mydomain.com/site/wrongurl then it doesnt work anymore. (I have a template group called SITE)

I posted in tech support they basically just said its a limitation of the system…. but gave no hint as to where to go from here…

Im running MSM too.

Thanks!

yes, it’s somehow EE URL scheme. EE treats the URI in a different manner.

To overcome this, you have to give a check into all the index template of template group. and also in the templates which are checking segment if related to any data so that if there is wrong segment for that data it should be redirected to 404 page.

to get the more details about EE url scheme look at ExpressionEngine URL Schematic

Thanks for posting that its very informative. From what I can see, if you have strict urls enabled, and then someone writes mydomain.com/template/wrongurl then it should spit out the 404 - I do have strict urls enabled, but its not doing it? Im not very experience with EE still learning… can you explain to me what you mean by checking all the index templates? Where do i perform this check? is it in my htaccess file?