Status Code 200 returned for 404 page SXA website

Question

We have a SXA website and tried to add 404 page as described here Setup 404 page by creating the Pipeline and adding a rendering to set the StatusCode to 404.

We also added Page Not found link in Settings

Testing that in our Azure environment but it didn't work.The returned status code is still 200.

Is it any other best way to configure the 404 page for SXA website?

Thanks.

Answer 1

The Pipeline solution is for the core Sitecore or non-SXA sites.

In SXA you can set the pages directly by putting/selecting the pages with its out of the box feature. This is how you do it.

• Create the page/pages for not found and internal server error page, you can even style it as per you design.

• Assign those page in your settings, by selecting the relevant pages.

• For the 500 page you have to do a little trick, once you have designed the pages completely.
  1. go to /sitecore/content/{Environment}/{DemoSXASite}/Settings/Site Grouping/DemoSXASite
  2. Select the tab from top navigation "ERROR HANDLING"
  3. Click on Generate static page.

Here is my blog link for reference:

https://isaadansari.wordpress.com/2018/07/04/setting-up-the-not-found-and-internal-server-error-pages-with-sxa-how-to-implement-series/

Answer 2

thank you for this article. I Created a 404 page as you mentioned and added some component to customize content displayed. I disabled the processor to override Sitecore's default 404. I set also ItemNotFoundUrl <setting name="ItemNotFoundUrl" value="/404" /> In web.config I didn't added any specific configuration in section customErrors and httpErrors for 404 statutscode just added paths in httpErrors for 400,405 and 500 statuscode.

Added 404 and 500 in Settings

Trying that I still got 200 statuscode

Stilling have the issue, I added also a controller rendering to set statusCode

public class PageNotFoundController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Request404Page()
    {
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.TrySkipIisCustomErrors = true;
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.StatusCode = 404;
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.StatusDescription = "404 File Not Found";

        return View();
    }
}

and the the view is empty

But testing that still have the issue 200 statuscode returned. Any ideas?

Answer 3

Not sure if this is the best way but if the redirect is already working but the status code is incorrect you could add a view rendering with these three lines of code to your 404 page(I have tested in Azure).

@{
HttpContext.Current.Response.TrySkipIisCustomErrors = true;
HttpContext.Current.Response.StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.NotFound;
HttpContext.Current.Response.StatusDescription = "Page not found";
}

Answer 4

In addition to Sitecore Sam's answer, you need to set this in your config so that the correct status code is shown.

<setting name="RequestErrors.UseServerSideRedirect" value="true" />