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What's the best way to set up a content-manageable 404 page?
I would create a Single with the URI set to "404", and also set its Template to "404". That entry will automatically get loaded if you go to http://example.com/404, and load your 404.html template, so ...
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Controller action works but still gives 404
You're definitely on the right track, just missing out on a couple of key details!
The actionUrl function generates a normal, full URL... it's not (by default) an AJAX call. So your browser is ...
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Craft not loading custom 404 template for errors
Turns out the general.php file had the following line (docs) in it:
'errorTemplatePrefix' => "_errors/"
Once I'd created the proper folder and files, all worked as expected.
Thanks, @CraftCMS ...
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Can I define a path to my 404 template?
Yes, use errorTemplatePrefix.
'errorTemplatePrefix' => "pages/",
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Contact Form plugin - Error loading 404 Pages
Anywhere you've currently got something that looks like this:
{% if message is defined %}{{ errorList(message.getErrors('fromEmail')) }}{% endif %}
Try changing that to:
{{ message is defined and ...
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Craft not loading custom 404 template for errors
It's quite possible that you are in Dev mode. If you switch to false, the 404.html may then be recognized…
Look at general.php, then change devMode to false.
// Dev environment settings
'dev' =&...
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Allowing a new locale to fallback on content from a default locale?
One solution (without needing to create a custom plugin) would be to add a lightswitch or checkbox field called useDefaultLocale, and add it to the field layout of any sections that you want to ...
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How to show homepage for 404 errors
404 isn’t a valid redirect status code, which is why {% redirect '/' 404 %} isn’t working correctly.
It sounds like you want to:
first issue a 301 or 302 redirect to the homepage
then serve the ...
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How to route 404 errors for multi-site Craft?
I pondered this for a while, and then did this, which will direct us to specific entries (not templates, I don't want to create more of those):
{# We need a unique 404 for each site - just take us to ...
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devMode false, Internal Server Error
Cleared the log files found at /storage/logs/web.log.
Tried to view an inner page on the website which threw a Craft "Internal Server Error".
Inside the log, I saw "Twig\Error\SyntaxError: Unknown "...
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404 page title SEOmatic
So it looks like you're using the old syntax for SEOmatic 1.x for Craft 2.x; here's how you do the same thing in SEOmatic for Craft 3:
{% do seomatic.meta.seoTitle("Some Title") %}
c.f.: https://...
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Limit entry pagination to 6 pages?
First, I don’t think your pagination navigation is limiting to just 6 pages like you think it is. The number you pass into paginate.getPrevUrls() and paginate.getNextUrls() will determine how many ...
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Channel URL Format leads to 404s for individual entries
It turned out that when I deleted news/ from the entry URL format, I also deleted it from the entry template path as well because I misunderstood what that field was for (and forgot to revert that ...
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404 problems, staging only
Looking at your screenshots, the host names are different. The cPanel 404 shows mysphotos instead of myphotos.
Probably a typo somewhere in your templates.
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6 month old site is suddenly throwing 404s
Since files that begin with a dot are hidden by default in Unix-based systems like OS X, Craft ships with a “htaccess” file rather than “.htaccess”. If you are using Apache and want to use this file, ...
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Can't remove index.php without getting a 404, .htaccess redirect not working, why?
Check and make sure your .htaccess file is in your public HTML folder public/.htaccess!
If you do not include your .htaccess file in your public folder, Craft will display your home page properly, ...
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What's the best way to set up a content-manageable 404 page?
404 redirect:
You could set up your single to use 404-not-found (example) as a uri, and add a redirect:
{% redirect '/404-not-found' %}
to the /404.html file. That way every 404-page gets ...
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404 problems, staging only
Probably your paths are not set up right; or the SERVER_NAME isn't what you think it is, so it's not matching the paths in your general.php
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404 error page not loading
So my issue was very simple to solve once I paid better attention. The 404 was loading perfectly fine the whole time, my problem was that in my 404 file I had it as {% block content %} and not {% ...
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Craft not loading custom 404 template for errors
Make sure you are in production mode in the .env file: ENVIRONMENT=production
Make sure you have developer mode disabled in config/general.php file: 'devMode'=>false
Make sure you have a 404.twig ...
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Template not found: $PRIMARY_SITE_URL/$PRIMARY_SITE_URL/blog/this-is-my-blog
You have to go to your Admin Dashboard > Settings > Sites > Your site and delete Base URL field, then save it and try to navigate.
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Craft CMS shows disabled entry page
Try adding this to the beginning of your case study entry template:
{% if entry is not defined %}
{% exit 404 %}
{% endif %}
Do you have a route set up for your case studies?
I've got routing ...
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404.html template causing twig_error_syntax
The error indicates you're trying to use a Twig filter that doesn't exist in your 404 template at line 4.
Maybe you've got a plugin that added it's own filter, but you don't have the plugin installed ...
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How can I test if a request returns a 404?
That solution is viable. You can just test to see if the entry or the template matches your 404 template/entry. If you routed everything correctly to display a 404 in case of error, you should be fine....
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Can I define a path to my 404 template?
Here's more than you ever wanted to know on 404 and error templates in Craft CMS: Handling Errors Gracefully in Craft CMS
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Can't remove index.php without getting a 404, .htaccess redirect not working, why?
Try setting omitScriptNameInUrls to true in your craft/config/general.php file.
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What's the best way to set up a content-manageable 404 page?
This is something I discuss in the Handling Errors Gracefully in Craft CMS article, not just for 404s, but for a number of different status codes/errors.
The actual templating code then ends up ...
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