The easier solution would be to redirect old URLs to the new URLs (Joomla's redirect component) and re-submit your site to Google 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 (I don't know if its possible in later Joomla versions (4 or 5), can only find limited information including this archived page https://docs.joomla.org/Archived:Creati ... 4_Error/en) and https://docs.joomla.org/Special:MyLangu ... rror_pages)
However, you might be able to create the custom ErrorDocument pages in your server (external to Joomla), typically you can set them up in your web hosting account admin - e.g. Plesk, cPanel etc. They are plain HTML pages usually named like 404.html, 500.html, 503.html and so on. The "ErrorDocument" instruction is then placed in your .htaccess file (or equivalent method on non-Linux hosting platforms).
You used to be able to create a custom 404 page (I don't know if its possible in later Joomla versions (4 or 5), can only find limited information including this archived page https://docs.joomla.org/Archived:Creati ... 4_Error/en) and https://docs.joomla.org/Special:MyLangu ... rror_pages)
However, you might be able to create the custom ErrorDocument pages in your server (external to Joomla), typically you can set them up in your web hosting account admin - e.g. Plesk, cPanel etc. They are plain HTML pages usually named like 404.html, 500.html, 503.html and so on. The "ErrorDocument" instruction is then placed in your .htaccess file (or equivalent method on non-Linux hosting platforms).
Statistics: Posted by AMurray — Wed Sep 11, 2024 9:36 pm