Soft 404's

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.3.4
-- Joomla version -- : 3.3.6
-- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : none

Hello everyone,

I'm getting a lot of soft 404 crawl errors for products that are no longer available. How do I make sure that these soft 404's return a 404 instead of 'product not found'?

Thanks,
Hal

Hello,
The solution will just be to edit the "show" file of the "product" view of your front-end template, via "Hikashop->Display->Views" and change these lines :

$app->enqueueMessage(JText::_('PRODUCT_NOT_FOUND'));
hikashop_setPageTitle(JText::_('PRODUCT_NOT_FOUND'));

return JError::raiseError(404, 'product not found');

I missed your reply. Thank you for your help!

I occasionally have a sale, so I have set up a 'sale' category. The problem is when those products come out of sale the page is still indexed by google and comes up in their search results i.e. /sale/product123.co.uk

Once I have removed a product from a category, can I make those also return a 404?

Thanks,
Hal