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We have a nifty Page Not Found page set up that comes up if the URL is not found. Very nice.

But I just noticed that if I create a page but leave its status to Closed, what you see if you go to that URL is just a page with our chrome but no content, but you do not see the Page Not Found message/page.

Now granted, not many people are going to find pages we’ve create by not put up, but I wonder if this is by design or if I’m missing something…?

Seems to me if a page is closed you should get the Page Not Found message. What if I decide to take a page down by clicking Closed but someone has a favorite to it they follow. They will see a blank and apparently ‘broken’ page as opposed to a clear Page Not Found error (that, among other things, says, ‘this page may have been removed.’

Sounds like you need to use

require_entry="yes"

{if no_results} {redirect="404"} {/if}

inside the tag pair.

Hey ACP Webmaster,

Zack is right! Thanks for the assist Zack.

Does this solve your issue?

Please let me know.

Cheers,

Hi,

I have the same issue, but I have

require_entry="yes"

already set. I’m getting 404s every time I would expect, except when an entry is closed - just a blank page.

Any help more than welcome!

Thanks
Andy

Hello Trenbania,

What version of ExpressionEngine are you currently using?

Thank you,

Hi Shane,

We’re at version 2.4.0 currently…

Thanks
Andy

Hello Trenbania,

Can you past in your template code for me?

I would like to see how you have this set up.

Cheers,