404 Handler Emitting Wrong Status Code

Kent Rauch

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Hello. My new site has the issue discussed here:

https://world.episerver.com/forum/developer-forum/-Episerver-75-CMS/Thread-Container/2018/11/404-behaviour-inconsistent/

That thread doesn't seem to contain the info I need.

Specifically, a request for a missing page results in the user seeing a nice message, but no 404 status code is sent. Instead, it's sending 200. I need to fix this, per Google's guidelines seen here.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/custom-404-pages

How do I set up the handler to emit the correct status code of 404?

Thanks.

#250918

Mar 18, 2021 14:05

Tomas Hensrud Gulla

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What version of Episerver CMS?
Are you using a 3rd party 404 handler?

#250919

Mar 18, 2021 14:11

Kent Rauch

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DXP, with BVN 404 Geta404

thnx

#250920

Edited, Mar 18, 2021 14:16

Praful Jangid

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This is the default behavior of this Epi module. You can implement the customizations mentioned on the git hub page to add controller and use the attribute (on your action that will return your custome view)

[NotFoundPage]

This will set status code for you to 404.

#250921

Mar 18, 2021 14:38

Kent Rauch - Mar 18, 2021 16:10

Thanks!

Praful Jangid - Mar 26, 2021 7:44

Hi Kent, if you got the solution can you please mark as answer or if you had a different solution please paste here and then you can that mark as answer.

Kent Rauch

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Thank you, Praful. That works.

#251665

Mar 26, 2021 12:05