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I have a need to temporarily unpublish some pages on our website, but when anonymous users try to access an unpublished page, say they had it bookmarked, they get the message:

Access Denied

Which may sound too harsh. I thought about changing it to 'Page Not Found.'

However, I searched the entire site and I can't find any template that controls this particular message. Using Theme Developer, I can see that the Access Denied page is using the standard page.tpl.php, which I don't believe has anything pertaining to the Access Denied page. What am I missing?

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  • 'Page Not Found' and 'Access Denied' are two different errors -- 404 and 403, respectively.
    – Lincoln Bergeson
    Commented Feb 22, 2017 at 20:46

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For Drupal 7 & 8, you can set your access denied page and your page not found page easily. Go to /admin/config/system/site-information and review the error page section.

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  • While this is true, it sounds like this posted wanted to swap the message - which is not possible (i.e. show 404 for a 403 for unpublished nodes). It may be technically feasible, but not a great idea.
    – Kevin
    Commented Feb 22, 2017 at 20:48
  • If he creates a page, he can set any message he wants to, like 'Page not found'
    – Scott Joudry
    Commented Feb 22, 2017 at 20:49
  • Except in the instance when it really isn't a 404, it would be really confusing if say there is an attached user component to this (like an extranet or light Drupal admin access).
    – Kevin
    Commented Feb 22, 2017 at 20:50
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    Just understand that this is a global change, if you are getting 404 in the future while developing or accessing parts of the site, it might be a 403 in disguise.
    – Kevin
    Commented Feb 22, 2017 at 20:54
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    lol what? Its just a message...
    – iLLin
    Commented Feb 22, 2017 at 20:56
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Assuming you are using Drupal 7. To find where the string comes from, you can go to your docroot and run grep -rnw . -e 'You are not authorized to access this page.' (You might need sudo permission).

I found it inside includes/common.inc at line 2729, under function drupal_deliver_html_page. That tells me I can try something like hook_page_delivery_callback_alter to modify the output in a custom module.

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  • You should never modify core, as a general rule.
    – Scott Joudry
    Commented Feb 22, 2017 at 20:50
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    I never meant to modify the core, I provided a way to find which hook to use in a custom module...
    – cchen
    Commented Feb 22, 2017 at 20:51
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    grep will just find occurrences of the message string - he walked back the response by finding the calling function, which a hook is provided for to alter it before delivery. In fact, there is a comment here that illuminates a possible answer: api.drupal.org/comment/54353#comment-54353
    – Kevin
    Commented Feb 22, 2017 at 20:52
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you can use the hook_preprocess_page to alter your page. the code example below will help you. add it it to your template.php or custom module.

    function Hook_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
   global $user;       
     if ($vars['title'] == 'Access denied') {


            $normal_path = $_GET['q'];
            $parts=explode('/', $normal_path);
            $nid_part = $parts[1];
            $node = node_load($nid_part);
            if (!isset($node)) {
              return;
            }
            if (($node->status == 0) &&
              ($node->nid == $nid_part) &&
              ($user->uid == 0)) {
              drupal_not_found();
               drupal_exit();
            }
    }

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  • Hmm... to expand on this, this solution would not work if a node was titled 'Access denied' for whatever reason (short story entry on a site for budding authors, lets say), also, it assumes any authenticated role has unpublished node access. Also, you can get the node object either by node_load(arg(1)) or by $node = menu_get_object('node'); without looking at the raw GET parameters.
    – Kevin
    Commented Feb 22, 2017 at 20:57
  • true that. well assuming that no one would create a node that is titled as 'Access Denied' in the website. you can use this code. alter it to your preferences. node->status=0 is to check if it's unpublished. by default Drupal will give 'Access denied' page for unpublished pages.
    – danuddara
    Commented Feb 22, 2017 at 21:07

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