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I'm having trouble getting 404 pages to work. In Global Template Preferences I've set strict urls to yes (tried No as well) and have selected my 404 template.

My code on a single entry page is as follows.

{exp:channel:entries channel="services" disable="member_data|pagination|category_fields" limit="1" require_entry="yes"}

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

more code here
{/exp:channel:entries}

As far as I can tell this should go to a 404 page if I change the url to a non-existing url_title in the final segment. What happens instead is the page displays including header, footer and sidebar, but the content is empty.

any ideas?

--UPDATE-- full template code is in a pastie here.

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  • Do you have an .htaccess in place? If so, it's worth removing it temporarily and testing again, see if you get different results.
    – Steve
    Mar 20, 2013 at 15:28
  • no change - removed htaccess and viewed page using index.php in the url and behaved the same.
    – CreateSean
    Mar 20, 2013 at 15:32

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You'll need {if switchee_no_results}{redirect="404"}{/if} if nested inside switchee, due to switchee's parse="inward"

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  • damn... didn't even think that switchee would be causing the trouble. Thanks James.
    – CreateSean
    Mar 20, 2013 at 15:45
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If you remove the {redirect="404"} from the conditional, and instead put something like 'no content' - does it show that?

whats the template group/page structure look like? I'm assuming you've got a 'services.group' and then servicing this code from an index.html (which is as I understand strict urls should work).

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  • Carl, yes /services/ is a listing page /services/url_title is a single entry. When I removed the redirect code nothing appears in it's place despite being inside the conditional
    – CreateSean
    Mar 20, 2013 at 15:35
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I had this problem and was getting a blank white page in some but not all instances. My 404 uses an entry so the client can modify the 404 message - so my 404 consisted of an entries tag pulling in a specific entry_id. Because the 404 might be invoked from anywhere else on the site, its entries tag was being confused by unexpected URL segments, so it needed the dynamic="off" parameter.

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