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pirula08
Inspiring
October 25, 2010
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Search engine friendly 404 page.

  • October 25, 2010
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I would like to create a custom search engine(SE) friendly 404 page to handle 404 (Not found) and 404-like content. In theory I wanna do it from application.cfc page with a few lines of code. CF code needs to recognize the 404s, redirect to SE friendly 404-page.cfm (for example) and then to redirect to the index.cfm!? Is that possible? Please give me some example or tell me where to start.

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    Adam Cameron.
    Inspiring
    October 25, 2010

    Well there's a server-wide missing template handler one can set in CF Admin, or an application-specific one one can set usintg onMissingTemplate() in Application.cfc.

    Configuring and Administering ColdFusion 9 > Using the ColdFusion Administrator > Server Settings section > Settings page

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Admin/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbf3638e6-7ffc.html#WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbf3638e6-7ffb

    onMissingTemplate()

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7d2a.html

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    Adam

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    pirula08Author
    Inspiring
    November 1, 2010

    I have been playing with onMissingTemplate() and my biggest concern here is that it actually can handle only .cfm pages.  For now I fully ageree with this solution because all of my pages come with a cfm extension, but again what about http://www.site.com/whatever/. Ideally it should be able to handle both http://www.site.com/page.cfm and http://www.site.com/whatever/ ?

    I forgot to mention that I am currently running ColdFusion MX 7 .

    Owainnorth
    Owainnorth
    Inspiring
    November 1, 2010

    If you're looking at implementing something like this then you need to look further than CF - as you say, it only ever gets given .cfm pages.

    You'll need to look at implementing a 404 handler at the webserver level (eg IIS or Apache).

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