Redirect 404

[e39m5]

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

 

[Peter]

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):-

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.

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

 

[e39m5]

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

 

[deadserious]

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]

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

 

[Scott]

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]

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]

Use:

ErrorDocument 404 yourscript.php

And in yourscript.php:

<?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]

Use:

ErrorDocument 404 yourscript.php

And in yourscript.php:

<?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]

OOps, one little mistake Should be "HTTP/1.0 301 Moved", not "HTTP/1.0 31 Moved".