What's wrong with cflocation? That's the point of a status code - moved temporarily or permanently (301 or 302). On Feb 23, 2014 5:10 PM, "Brian G" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have an event listings website and from time to time, events are deleted > or links to them are broken which generate soft 404 errors in Google > webmaster tools. Basically, the page isn't found and I currently result to > redirect them back to an event search page. I'd like to clean this up and > properly handle it for Google by NOT redirecting but returning a 404 with a > helpful event search page. I can see how to create a default exception > handler but that causes a cflocation. I thought I could maybe use > event.forward() but that too uses cflocation. > > Is there a way in MG from a controller, when I don't find something in the > database, to immediately execute a 404 handler WITHOUT a redirect? E.g., > the URL should stay the same with the "/this/url/doesnt/exist" and I could > return a 404 header. I don't want this site-wide, it should only handle my > event listings. > > The only thing I can think of right now is to create a proxy > eventhandler... like > > <event-handler name="display-event"> > <broadcast> > <message name="doCheckEventExists" /> > </broadcast> > <results> > <result name="isFound" do="display-event-found" /> > <result name="notFound" do="display-event-404" /> > </results> > </event-handler> > > This will work, but I would have to apply this proxy in quite a number of > places in my eventhandlers XML. I'd rather consolidate it down to the one > place in my event controller where I determine whether the event id passed > in the URL can be found, regardless of the kind of output (event info, > event requirements, attendee list, results, etc). > > > Brian > > > -- > -- > Model-Glue Sites: > Home Page: http://www.model-glue.com > Documentation: http://docs.model-glue.com > Bug Tracker: http://bugs.model-glue.com > Blog: http://www.model-glue.com/blog > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "model-glue" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/model-glue?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "model-glue" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- Model-Glue Sites: Home Page: http://www.model-glue.com Documentation: http://docs.model-glue.com Bug Tracker: http://bugs.model-glue.com Blog: http://www.model-glue.com/blog You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "model-glue" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/model-glue?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "model-glue" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
