Note you're referring to 404 errors not 401. 404 is "Not Found" and 401 is "Unauthorized".
The easier solution would be to redirect old URLs to the new URLs (Joomla's redirect component). I can't find specific Joomla docs on this so provide this link: https://kevinsguides.com/guides/webdev/ ... -redirect/
There are also Redirect extensions that may help (but the included component may suffice)
https://extensions.joomla.org/category/ ... direction/
Your redirected page can be a normal joomla article with the information you want on it, but the more logical way would be to simply redirect to the correct page with the Redirect component as mentioned above. You can manually re-submit your site to Google (in Google's webmaster tools) to refresh its search index or eventually Google will crawl your site again, and pick up any new URLs, and the old broken URLs I assume should eventually drop off google searches.
You used to be able to create a custom 404 page directly in Joomla (I don't know if its possible in later Joomla versions 4 or 5) but this information may help: https://docs.joomla.org/Archived:Creati ... 4_Error/en) and https://docs.joomla.org/Special:MyLangu ... rror_pages).
Finally you might be able to create redirects through your .htaccess file (although more complicated if you can do it through Joomla's redirect). Or you can create the "404" error page in your web hosting, I'm sure cPanel allows you to do that and so you can set up customised Error Document pages for 404 Page not found, but also for other typical errors like 403 (Forbidden), 500 (Internal Server Error) and many others
The easier solution would be to redirect old URLs to the new URLs (Joomla's redirect component). I can't find specific Joomla docs on this so provide this link: https://kevinsguides.com/guides/webdev/ ... -redirect/
There are also Redirect extensions that may help (but the included component may suffice)
https://extensions.joomla.org/category/ ... direction/
Your redirected page can be a normal joomla article with the information you want on it, but the more logical way would be to simply redirect to the correct page with the Redirect component as mentioned above. You can manually re-submit your site to Google (in Google's webmaster tools) to refresh its search index or eventually Google will crawl your site again, and pick up any new URLs, and the old broken URLs I assume should eventually drop off google searches.
You used to be able to create a custom 404 page directly in Joomla (I don't know if its possible in later Joomla versions 4 or 5) but this information may help: https://docs.joomla.org/Archived:Creati ... 4_Error/en) and https://docs.joomla.org/Special:MyLangu ... rror_pages).
Finally you might be able to create redirects through your .htaccess file (although more complicated if you can do it through Joomla's redirect). Or you can create the "404" error page in your web hosting, I'm sure cPanel allows you to do that and so you can set up customised Error Document pages for 404 Page not found, but also for other typical errors like 403 (Forbidden), 500 (Internal Server Error) and many others
Statistics: Posted by AMurray — Wed Sep 11, 2024 9:36 pm