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Proper 404 for non-existing element - El Forum - 11-28-2012
[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Hi there!
I have a website that shows interesting places in my city. Places are available under URLs:
mydomain.com/place-3333 (where 3333 is place's id).
However, if you manually type in your browser some fake ID like:
mydomain.com/place-33336756756
then application returns code 200 and shows a view without any data in there. This is not good in terms of SEO.
My model returns false if there is no such place in the database. In the controller, I have problem with proper redirecting and sending 404 error.
Could please sombody help me with it?
cheers
pete
Proper 404 for non-existing element - El Forum - 11-28-2012
[eluser]Aken[/eluser]
If you want to throw a 404 error, just use the show_404() function.