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    <p>So... we have a custom CMS. We have a rewrite rule that any page request (when a file doesn't exist) goes to the root/index.cfm file. There we search our DB for the page in question. If the page exists, we serve up the correct template,etc. If the page doesn't exist I want to server up a 404 page. Now I "think" I cannot do this in IIS since I need to handle the request in CF, so it has to get through. The file will always exist. When the page doesn't exist I've tried using <code>&lt;cfheader statusCode="404" &gt;</code> and then include some html, it puts <code>The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.</code> at the top of the page before my html. In order to get it to display the page I had to remove the 404 status code handler from IIS.</p> <p>In addition when I fetch as Google, it get's a 301. However when I view response headers in Firefox I get.</p> <pre><code>Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:31:42 GMT 404 Not Found </code></pre> <p>I've tried a combination of redirecting and all sorts of things. I open to letting IIS handle the 404, if there is a way, but I cannot figure out how to get Coldfusion to correctly deliver a 404 so Google gets it right. Webmaster tools gets mad at me because I am delivering "Soft 404s" before this point, so I am trying to fix that.</p> <p>I've also tried setting <code>&lt;httpErrors existingResponse="PassThrough" /&gt;</code> whatever the hell that does, but didn't work either. I've been looking up other threads trying to figure this out and just can't.</p> <p>EDIT: Looking further into this, viewing the header info in both Firebug &amp; Chrome I clearly see the headers say 404. Why would Fetch as Bing and Fetch as Google say differently?</p> <p>I tested the fact that if I add .cfm to the URLs, it Fetch as Google will deliver see 404. However without the .cfm, it thinks it's 301. Firebug sees both as 404. This seems like a Google issue.</p> <p><strong>ANSWER Kind of:</strong></p> <p>So I was doing more testing this morning (Right after I added a bounty actually), and I noticed in webmaster tools, Google correctly noted one of my pages as a 404. So I started looking into it. I have an "Add Trailing Slash Rule". Google notices <code>domain.com/page</code> as a 301 (Correct I guess) to <code>domain.com/page/</code>. But it does notice <code>domain.com/page/</code> as a 404. I think using the trailing slash rule as I have it is the right way, however, should I be doing something different, or is using the redirect with the slash the "correct" way of doing things, even though Google wants to ding me for it sometimes.</p>
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    1. COAre you sending the `statustext` with your `cfheader`? Should be like this `<cfheader statuscode="404" statustext="Not Found" />`. This is how I do it and it works (in CF9).
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    2. COI've added that yes. I see the headers in Firebug. However when the URL doesn't have a .cfm on it, Google sees it as a 301 to itself even when Firebug sees it as a 404. So I'll get soft 404 errors when I don't want them.
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    3. COAre you using a URL rewrite rule or something similar for when a request does not have the .cfm file specified? IIS rewrite, .htaccess, etc.
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