Posted by J. Cohen on March 5, 2009 at 4:56pm
Deafult views in the Views 2 Module have an SEO issue. They don't send 404 errors when a non-existent URL is requested.
For example, if your view is located at
example.com/articles
and your page is at:
example.com/articles/my-page
but you accidentally link to:
example.com/articles/mypage
Drupal sends a "200 OK" header and the content from:
example.com/articles
instead of sending a 404 header/page.
Is there a way to fix that in the Views settings or should I add an issue to the Views module?
Comments
Same Problem here. This is
Same Problem here. This is really a big Problem because it creates duplicate pages with no content. Especially when you change your URL-structure.
Webdesign, Marketing & SEO
Target-Traffic media
Workaround
As i needed a quick solution i figured a workaround. Just use a name other than the "directory" for the view.
For Example:
example.com/articles/myexistingpage > 200
example.com/articles/mynonexistingpage > 404
example.com/articles/ > 404
example.com/articles/view > 200
Webdesign, Marketing & SEO
Target-Traffic media
Solution found!
The solution is to edit the view by adding an Argument of Node: Nid. Set it to "Display all values", Validator: Node, and Argument type of Node ID. Set Action to take if argument does not validate: to Hide view / Page not found (404). Update the Argument and save the view.
Detailed post at http://peterpetrik.com/blog/2009/11/non-existent-urls-views-2
great but how about content/page?
i create a new content/page with url alias http://www.example.com/test
when i key in invalid url http://www.example.com/text/invalid, it suppose go to 404 page but it show same thing like the page from http://www.example.com/test
Other Arguments
Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work when you have other arguments.
I have a "term name" argument that should give me /folder/term, but also gives me /folder/whatever/whatever/whatever. Adding the "node ID" kills all my "/folder/terms".
Shame... I'm kind of desperate for a solution. (Unfortunately this is still a D5 system so Views 404 won't work.)
new module
Give it a try, it should solve the views 404 issue.
http://drupal.org/project/views404