Force a 410 error

[georgeek]

Hi -

Google has indexed pages that do not exist on my site. At the moment webmaster tools says the are 404s but I want to change them to 410s.

In .htaccess I have pages for the errors:

ErrorDocument 404 /404.htm
ErrorDocument 410 /410.htm

and I have:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/it-doesnot.exist - [G]

But the browser still returns a 404 for this url.

Any ideas?

[g1smd]

Remove the leading slash from the RegEx pattern.

Paths are localised on a "per-directory" basis before being presented to mod_rewrite.

[georgeek]

Perfect - Thank you!