Hey! I’m getting a 200 status code when going to a /404 page. It seems to be working when I actually type in a non-existent URL (like https://redesign-oasis-foundation-website.webflow.io/lkerjhf) but going directly to Not Found will give a status code of 200, which seems to be causing problems in SEO.
Any suggestions?
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hi @Kaja_Osojnik why you would like to get 404 error on successfully connected and rendered “404” page? .
404 page is just another page client is redirected into instead watching blank screen and API error message in console.
When you try access any page that doesn’t exist eg.(kjh) API will produce 404 error and will redirect to 404 page. So you see 404 status for non existent or matching URL.
When you directly manually access to “404” page in URL you will get 200 status because you are successfully connected to standard page that has informational content that page that client have tried connect to (kjh) doesn’t exist. It is the same way if you redirect to home page or any other page instead.
So what SEO issues you are talking about?
I am having this issue as well. The issue (for me) is that google doesn’t index the page, “Search Console has identified that some pages on your site are not being indexed due to the following new reason: Soft 404.” When I read through https://moz.com/blog/how-to-fix-crawl-errors-in-google-search-console it says that “for pages that are live pages, ensure the content on your [404] page doesn’t appear to represent a 404 page while serving a 200 response code.” But the Webflow 404 template is serving a 200 response code…
I’m not sure why you would want Google to index your /404 page. Its identificaton of that URL as a soft 404 is a good thing.
