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Hi, I’m trying to stop non existent urls in a blog.

I’ve got the following code in a blog template:

{exp:channel:entries channel="{blog_channel}" limit="1" dynamic="no" sort="asc" disable="trackbacks|comments|categories|member_data|pagination|category_fields" require_entry="yes"}
{if no_results OR segment_3 !="" }

        {redirect="404"}

    {if:else}

Stuff here

    {/if}

{/exp:channel:entries}

The segment 3 part works fine, but the no results doesn’t seem to work. If I throw in a non existent url: http://www.domain.co.uk/blog/nonexistenturl it still shows one of the other posts?

Hi Richard,

I’m pretty sure that the {if no_results} conditional is quite a simple one and so can’t be used with an extra conditional mixed in with it.

I believe if you use two separate conditionals then hopefully this will work for you.

Mark

Hi Mark,

Ok that works, noticed i also had dynamic=“no”

Just wondering how would I get this to work on the entry template that wouldn’t have url_title.

http://www.domainname.co.uk/blog

On this page I have 2 or 3 of the latests post but getting 404. I guess because it doesn’t have a url_title in the url?

Hi Mark got it sorted, just wanted to ask if this was an efficient way of doing it. Looking to keep page load as quick as possible.

{exp:channel:entries channel="{blog_channel}" limit="1" sort="asc" disable="trackbacks|comments|categories|member_data|pagination|category_fields"}
{if segment_2 == ""}
CONTENT HERE
{/exp:channel:entries}

{if:else}
{exp:channel:entries channel="{blog_channel}" limit="1" sort="asc" disable="trackbacks|comments|categories|member_data|pagination|category_fields" require_entry="yes"}
{if no_results}{redirect="404"}{/if}
OTHER CONTENT HERE
{/exp:channel:entries}
{/if}

Thanks

Rich