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Howdy folks,

Does anyone know how to display a 404 page (or error page) for an invalid category URL?

I know how to do it for an invalid entry url by using

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{my_weblog}" require_entry="yes"}

and

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

but can’t figure it out for categories.

Here is an example of a correct URL (for my site):

http://www.example.com/go/articles/C4

Here is an example of an incorrect URL (notice the “C” is not capitalized:

http://www.example.com/go/articles/c4

When someone links to the incorrect URL, it winds up showing a ton of article links instead of just the articles in the C4 category.

“c4” is not valid category trigger URL, so it EE will treat it like any other unrecognized URL segment; so, require_entry should work as normal.