I would like to 410 an entire directory - I deleted my blog

Question

I had a folder called blog on my site. I deleted it all permanently. I would like to 410 it. How do i 410 an entire folder?

e.g. my site looked like this

Answer 1

For those who are using IIS (7 or above) and stumble across this post as i did, this is how I wound up doing it using the global.asax:

void Application_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    HttpApplication app = sender as HttpApplication;

    if (app.Request.Url.PathAndQuery.IndexOf("/mydirectory") > -1)
    {
        Response.StatusCode = 410; Response.End();
    }
}

I happened to be looking for all pages in a directory, but I could have done something similar like targeting all html pages (assuming 410’ing ALL html pages were to be “gone”)