Closed Entry 404 Issue

Without seeing your template, are you using {if no_results} {redirect="404"} {/if} ? You may also want to use require_entry https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/channels/entries.html#require_entry.

ExpressionEngine expects the URL to be in the form of /[template group]/[template name]/[entry title or ID]. It parses the URL in that order. So if it finds any of that, it won’t redirect to 404. In other words, if it finds the template group based on the URL, but not the template in segment_2, then it will use the default template for that group and try to return something. If it finds the group and template, but no the title or id in segment_3, then it will return the template with whatever it can. If the exp:channel:entries tag doesn’t return any results and there’s no if no_results in place, then it will return no data from that tag. None of these scenarios though will result in a 404.

This is a little old, but I believe the majority if not all of this still holds true: http://www.jamessmith.co.uk/articles/expressionengine_url_schematic

I was just logging in to make the same recommendation as above. Add the following ot your template if you haven’t already:

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

R

Thank you both, I was able to successfully get a 404 status code. This produced another issue with my homepage (which is set as the 404) not rendering the header. I have a template embed followed by a partial.

It’s odd because the homepage (site/index) works fine on it’s own, but when it’s redirected to via 404 the embed and partial aren’t working, it just shows all content below that.

Beyond the scope of this thread, but figured I’d mention it.

Thanks for this thread, it’s very helpful for me 1v1 lol unblocked