Deleted Category Redirects instead of 404

[Floobynooby]

Hi Does anyone know how to hard code a 404 error for a category that's been deleted. The category should go to a 404.php page but instead goes 302 Moved Temporarily and then redirects to index.php?controller=404.

 

Need the deleted page to give a 404 error so that its been removed not a redirect.

 

Have tried adding: ErrorDocument 404 /404.php to the .htaccess file but doesn't work.

 

Also tried;

 

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

     # Turn on rewrite engine

     RewriteEngine on

     # Force 404 on page detection

     ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

     RewriteRule ^(.*)/8-crystal-glass$ - [R=404,NC,L]

</IfModule>

 

but that doesn't work either.

 

Does anyone know how I can force this deleted category to throw a 404 error instead of a redirect.

 

Its needed to delete a lot of incoming links to that page.

 

Any advice would be much appreciated.

 

 

 

[Floobynooby]

It appears after further investigation that any category page that is deleted or doesn't even exist gives a 302 Moved Temporarily error which directs to a 404. Is it not possible that missing categories also throw a 404?

[Floobynooby]

Does anyone know where the code is located that causes prestashop to throw a 302 when a category page is missing??  302 redirected to 404??