Prevent Category Pages from Generating I have a website that is generating /category pages and /taxonomy archive type pages, with a list of posts containing a certain taxonomy term.  I do not have a template for this page and they seem unnecessary/duplicate content.  Is there any way to prevent them from being created?

category/region/all/boston?page=2&amp;region=DEFAULT
/taxonomy/term/14/”?page=19&amp;region=DEFAULT

link to one of these pages
http://nyc.thedelimagazine.com/taxonomy/term/14/%E2%80%9D?page=19&amp;region=DEFAULT
If you really want to prevent the URLs from existing at all, you could probably unset the paths using a hook_menu_alter. I would be careful with that though, as it might have unforseen consequences. The creating module may in some way depend on the paths existance.

I don't know where the category paths comes from but I guess the answer will be the same as for the taxonomy ones.

My solution would be to take over the URL with Page manager, and simply pass the user a redirect to the front page. (Or a 404, if you prefer).
Note that I'm talking about "Page manager" in Ctools, not Panels. The two modules are often confused and their names interchanged.