Drupal Views - how to send 404 error when page doesn't exist?

By Z2222 on 5 Mar 2009 at 16:56 UTC

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

Target-Tom commented 6 May 2009 at 21:18

Same Problem here. This is really a big Problem because it creates duplicate pages with no content. Especially when you change your URL-structure.

Workaround

Target-Tom commented 7 May 2009 at 07:30

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

Solution found!

Slovak commented 5 December 2009 at 04:45

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?

xsean commented 22 January 2010 at 23:08

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

FranCarstens commented 2 May 2011 at 15:48

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.)

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Add global: null field in

bisw commented 4 September 2015 at 06:51

Add global: null field in contextual filter as same as above it will work.

new module

mikeytown2 commented 13 May 2010 at 05:04

Give it a try, it should solve the views 404 issue.
http://drupal.org/project/views404

Global Null contextual filter

wesleymusgrove commented 10 April 2019 at 15:49

Hi,

I ran into the very same issue exactly as described by the OP... 10 years later.

The solution that worked for me was to add a Global: Null contextual filter.

Under "WHEN THE FILTER VALUE IS NOT IN THE URL", tell it to "Display all results for the specified field". This allowed me to still see the list of all articles at the views path: example.com/articles

And under "WHEN THE FILTER VALUE IS IN THE URL OR A DEFAULT IS PROVIDED" check "Specify validation criteria", Validator "Content", Content type "Blog post" or "Article" - whatever content type it is. This allowed me to still see a valid post at example.com/articles/my-page, but invalid links like example.com/articles/mypage respond with 404.

Thanks!