404 for existing page?

fr600

Hi,

Is it possible to display Error 404 with the help of htaccess for a page that already exist?

piersk

Probably. But why would you want a "page missing" error when the page isn't missing?

fr600

piersk wrote:
Probably. But why would you want a "page missing" error when the page isn't missing?

Yes, I know it sounds weird but I want to remove a few pages from google search result.

And thnx bradgrafelman, I'm gonna try it and see how it works.

piersk

if you want google to unindex it, you're probably better off looking at your robots.txt file instead.

fr600

bradgrafelman wrote:
I suppose you could use mod_rewrite...
RewriteRule ^path/to/somepage\.html$ /error_page.html [R=404]

It says "Internal Server Error"

@: I can but that takes time.

leatherback

fr600 wrote:
@: I can but that takes time.

And this doesn't?

piersk

Google will still have to re-index the pages before it will change, so (as LB suggests) this will take just as long. Also, if you use the mod_rewrite method, ANYONE who goes to that page will see the 404 error, not just google. I think the robot.txt file is the way forward with this.

fr600

leatherback wrote:
And this doesn't?

Heard of "google url console" ?

leatherback

fr600 wrote:
Heard of "google url console" ?

Nope, I have not. Please elaborate.
J

fr600

leatherback wrote:
Nope, I have not. Please elaborate.
J

URL: http://services.google.com:8882/urlconsole/controller

Here you can remove outdated urls only if there is error 404. It takes 3-5 days to remove an url completely from the search result.

piersk

And (if my server logs are anything to go by as well as doing a search on google) google indexes far more frequently than that

piersk

fr600 wrote:
URL: http://services.google.com:8882/urlconsole/controller

Here you can remove outdated urls only if there is error 404. It takes 3-5 days to remove an url completely from the search result.

And whats the first thing that even google suggests... oh would you look at that. Use robots.txt :glare:

Bunkermaster

that won't remove the google cache if there was any.

piersk

Did anyone feel a chill in here?

Weedpacket

Yeah, but I thought that was the ghost of John Backus. "That was quick", I thought.

stolzyboy

bunker what?

Bunkermaster

you guys need to work on your welcoming skills.

piersk

Who said you were welcome?

😃 Seriously it's good to see you again. It's been too long. You still workin for Jolt?

leatherback

Bunkermaster wrote:
you guys need to work on your welcoming skills.

Hey there Bunker! How did you master to crawl out of nothingness!? Are you really britney spears? Were you released today too!?

Welcome back!

stolzyboy

Bunkermaster wrote:
you guys need to work on your welcoming skills.

😛