If 404 redirect

  • em920

    (@em920)


    1 month ago

    I’m trying to use redirection to help us manage our closed careers pages. Is it possible to set this up so it essentially says if (careers page) would return a 404/301 error, redirect to ‘Vacancy Closed’ page but if the original page is live, do not redirect?

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  • Thread Starter em920

    (@em920)

    3 weeks, 6 days ago

    Hi,

    Any advice on this problem?

    Thanks

    alexfv

    (@alexfv)

    1 day, 14 hours ago

    This is a built-in match in Redirection. You don’t need any external check.

    When adding the redirect:

    1. **Source URL**: pattern matching /careers/(.*) (toggle Regex if you want to catch sub-pages)

    2. **URL options** (click *More options* on the source URL row): change *When matched* from URL only to URL and HTTP status code

    3. **HTTP status code**: 404

    4. **Target URL**: your *Vacancy Closed* page

    Now the redirect fires only when the careers URL would otherwise 404. As long as the page exists and returns 200, nothing happens.

    A couple of gotchas: Some caching layers (Cloudflare, server-level page cache) keep serving a cached 404 long after the page comes back. If you re-add a vacancy and it still hits the redirect, clear those caches. A few themes return 200 OK on their custom 404 template (for SEO reasons). If yours does that, the match won’t fire, because the actual status code isn’t 404. Quick check: curl -I https://yoursite.com/careers/old-job should return HTTP/1.1 404.

    Does your careers page get rebuilt regularly, or is this more of a one-off cleanup? That changes whether you want the redirect to be permanent or scoped to specific URLs.

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