How to change the 404 error page to an 410 error page?

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Bichareh
#22485
Sep 25, 2014 at 11:50 am

Hi,

I want to change the 404 error page to an 410 error page. How can I do this?

Thanks!

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simchris
#22553
Sep 25, 2014 at 7:24 pm

Not part of the theme; this is a wordpress and page request issue; so you likely need to Google that, as in this discussion on the WordPress site:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirecting-404-errors-to-410

Probably you can clone the 404 template to be 410, but that has nothing to do with what headers are sent back to Google, etc.; that is done outside of the theme, and likely must be done via rewrite rules, or custom code to specify an error page and serve 410 response vs 404.

Might be a plugin for this, or you’d have to put in some custom code in the htaccess file to specify where to send folks asking for DOA page to 410 error message and send back 410 response vs 404 response.

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