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#29271 A great feature ..... 404 shield

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Latest post by TIAB on Monday, 26 February 2018 04:05 CST

Saturday, 24 February 2018 09:30 CST

TIAB
Just to say the recently introduced 404 Shield is a great implementation - a good heads-up to see what's happening .... or trying to happen!

Never seen it for any of my sites until now after taking over new domain which was previously a WordPress site. Frequent 404 shield errors now being reported looking for the old wp- directories, immages and plugins etc.

Just wanted to give the akeeba team due credit for their support and continued development :)

I have seen the post #29158 - and worth a read if you don't know about the 404 shield.

Monday, 26 February 2018 01:56 CST

nicholas
You're welcome :)

BTW, if you have 404s you'd like to redirect you can have Joomla's Redirect component catch all 404s. Then you can sort them by hits and use Admin Tools' URL Redirection feature or .htaccess code (when redirecting hundreds of URLs with a common base path) to create redirections. If the old URLs are completely gone you can always use some .htaccess code to have them respond with HTTP status 410 (Gone) instead of 404 (Not Found). 410 tells search engines that the URL they tried to access has been permanently removed from the site and won't be coming back, therefore they should remove it from the index.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Monday, 26 February 2018 03:43 CST

TIAB
That's a nice idea re. the 410s and indexing. So am thinking that a - redirect gone /directory_name - could work in the htaccess?

Monday, 26 February 2018 04:02 CST

nicholas
Correct. Just remember that case matters. The code is
Redirect gone /directory_name

with a capital R :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Monday, 26 February 2018 04:05 CST

TIAB
Thanks Nicholas.

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