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I have all my pages in the pages module.

I’d like to direct to a 404 page if the requested url is not in the pages module.

Does anyone know “how to” do this?

Maybe a combination of the show_pages parameter and the if no_results conditional?

That might work for most situations, but in my case I want to embed the 404 template before the weblog tag is called.

A php solution would be preferred, maybe a query to the db.

Is the built-in 404 preference not working for you?

You can use a simple database query and if no match then return a header like this:

<?php  header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found"); ?>

But I would use the built-in support if at all possible.

I didn’t think the built-in 404 preference works with the pages module.  I’m not sure how to access the built in 404 preference from the admin to test it.

It’s under Templates >  Global Template Preferences and you can choose a template to show in the event of a 404. There are some caveats listed here and here (if you’re removing index.php).

Ah there it is!  It works great!

THanks