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    301 Moved Permanently vs 410 Gone

    We have some pdf files were deleted from the server long ago. We generate 404 errors for files that no longer exist but it seems some search engines are still trying to index them.

    Should we generate a 410 Gone error for these files instead?
    Ray Yates
    "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
    --- Sir Isaac Newton

    #2
    Give it a 410 if they have not been renamed or archived to a different place...

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      #3
      Originally posted by Jonathan-Driftwood View Post
      Give it a 410 if they have not been renamed or archived to a different place...
      That's what I thought too. It would be nice if URI Management included a way to send these dead links to the NTFD page with 410 Gone code. I'll have to play around with it to see how best to do this.
      Ray Yates
      "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
      --- Sir Isaac Newton

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        #4
        The solution is lying in .htaccess, eh?
        Last edited by Jonathan-Driftwood; 07-25-16, 11:09 AM.

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          #5
          If content was not replaced/moved, consider updating your robots.txt be better.
          Thank you, Bill Davis

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