redirect 404

e39m5 · 09-12-2004, 07:50 AM

cpanel automatically sves as a .shtml. How can i redirect to my homepage iwth that extension?

Peter · 09-12-2004, 09:30 AM

i take it you mean you want the shtml site to be the 1 it goes to if someone types in www.domain.com

if so simply do the following:-

creat a text document and put the following into it (changing page.shtml to whatever the page is called):-

Code:

DirectoryIndex page.shtml

save the file as .htaccess (note nothing before the .) and upload it into your root folder. If you want other pages to be default page if that 1 does not exist just put a space at the end and add the next name.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/programming/47483-redirect-404-a.html

More info can be found at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/htaccess.html

e39m5 · 09-12-2004, 09:32 AM

if someone types in www.1320info.com/asdlhglksgakjdhg.html i want it to go to www.1320info.com/index2.php

deadserious · 09-13-2004, 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by e39m5

if someone types in www.1320info.com/asdlhglksgakjdhg.html i want it to go to www.1320info.com/index2.php

You can add this to your .htaccess file:

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.yourdomain.ext/pageyouwantredirectedto.html

e39m5 · 09-15-2004, 04:02 PM

heh, im a n00b at this, wheres the htaccess file?

Scott · 09-15-2004, 04:20 PM

Originally Posted by e39m5

heh, im a n00b at this, wheres the htaccess file?

It's a file named ".htaccess" in your www directory (public_html for cPanel servers).

Peter · 09-16-2004, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by deadserious

You can add this to your .htaccess file:

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.yourdomain.ext/pageyouwantredirectedto.html

if you do that I dont think the search engines will index the page as a header that will be sent will of 1 that a page does not exist.

Michau · 10-01-2004, 10:03 AM

Use:

Code:

ErrorDocument 404 yourscript.php

And in yourscript.php:

Code:

<?php
header("HTTP/1.0 301 Moved");
header("Location: index2.php");
?>

This way you will get indexed by sarch engines because the PHP script will remove the 404 error code.

Caveman · 10-02-2004, 02:28 AM

Originally Posted by Michau

Use:
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=47483

Code:

ErrorDocument 404 yourscript.php

And in yourscript.php:

Code:

<?php
header("HTTP/1.0 31 Moved");
header("Location: index2.php");
?>

This way you will get indexed by sarch engines because the PHP script will remove the 404 error code.

Nice Tip!

Michau · 10-02-2004, 03:37 AM

OOps, one little mistake

Should be "HTTP/1.0 301 Moved", not "HTTP/1.0 31 Moved".

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